anticipative

American  

[an-tis-uh-pey-tiv, -puh-tiv] / ænˈtɪs əˌpeɪ tɪv, -pə tɪv /

adjective

1. anticipating or tending to anticipate; expressing, revealing, or containing anticipation.

   an anticipative action; an anticipative look.

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Other Word Forms

• anticipatively adverb
• nonanticipative adjective
• nonanticipatively adverb
• unanticipative adjective

Etymology

Origin of anticipative

First recorded in 1655–65; anticipate + -ive

Example Sentences

The President issued two proclamations—one anticipative, one celebrative.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mahalia was even more anticipative about her subsequent pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

From Time Magazine Archive

De Courval, rising, bowed to the anticipative partner, and said, "No; the President may want me."

From The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)

But had Pierre now reread the opening paragraph of her letter to him, he might have very quickly derived a powerful anticipative objection from his sister, which his own complete disinterestedness concealed from him.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

The Doctor, looking complacently expansive, cheerily anticipative, welcomed them on the doorstep.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 8, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir