adjective
- Known to be about to arrive: anticipated, due, scheduled. See surprise/expect.
expected
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IN BRIEF: adj. - Considered likely or probable to happen or arrive; awaited or looked forward to.
It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
— Viktor Frankl, Source: Dr. Victor E. Frankl in Man's Search for Meaning, Simon and Schuster, NY, 1963, p. 122.
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The adjective has 3 meanings:
Meaning #1:
considered likely or probable to happen or arrive
Antonym: unexpected (meaning #1)
Meaning #2:
looked forward to as probable
Meaning #3:
expected to become or be; in prospect
Synonyms: likely, potential
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