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expecting
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expecting
agape, agog, all agog, anticipant, anticipating, anticipative, anticipatory, atiptoe, awaiting, aweless, big, big with child, big-laden, breeding, calm, carrying, carrying a fetus, certain, composed, confident, cool, eager, expectant, expected, forearmed, forestalling, forewarned, gaping, gestating, gone, gravid, great, heavy, heavy with child, hopeful, in anticipation, in expectation, inexcitable, knocked up, looking for, looking forward to, not surprised, optimistic, parturient, preggers, pregnant, prepared, ready, sanguine, superfetate, superimpregnated, sure, teeming, unamazed, unastonished, unastounded, unawed, unbewildered, undazed, undazzled, undumbfounded, unimpressed, unmarveling, unmoved, unsurprised, unwondering, waiting, waiting for, watching for, with child, wonderlessROGET THESAURUS
expecting
Expectance
N expectance, example, instance (conformity), normality (habit), nine days' wonder, expecting, unamazed, astonished at nothing, blase, expected, foreseen, unsurprising, common, ordinary, normal, typical, usual, naturally, as a matter of course, Int, no wonder, of course.Expectation
N expectation, expectance, expectancy, anticipation, reckoning, calculation, foresight, contemplation, prospection, lookout, prospect, perspective, horizon, vista, destiny, suspense, waiting, abeyance, curiosity, anxious expectation, ardent expectation, eager expectation, breathless expectation, sanguine expectation, torment of Tantalus, hope, trust, auspices, assurance, confidence, presumption, reliance, expectant, expecting, in expectation, on the watch, open-eyed, open-mouthed, in wide-eyed anticipation, agape, gaping, all agog, on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, on the tiptoe of expectation, aux aguets, ready, curious, looking forward to, expected, long expected, foreseen, in prospect, prospective, in one's eye, in one's view, in the horizon, on the horizon, just over the horizon, just around the corner, around the corner, impending, on the watch, with breathless expectation, with bated breath, with rapt anticipation, arrectis auribus, we shall see, nous verrons, expectation whirls me round, the light at the end of the tunnel.For further exploring for "expecting" in Webster Dictionary Online