expecting

The process by which somebody expects something.

Adjective

  1. Of a woman, female animal, or couple, in expectation of giving birth; pregnant.
    • The expecting mother is enthusiastic about learning childcare.
    • When is the new couple expecting?
  2. Expectant.
    • Dunscomb was in the sanctum, while a single clerk and three or four clients, countryment of decent exterior and very expecting countenances, occupied the outer room . - 1850, James Fenimore Cooper, The Ways of the Hour:
    • Parma, unwilling to fight an action which might force France into the field, raised the siege; and Alençon, having strengthened the garrison, thrown in supplies, saved his credit with the Low Countries, and at all...
    • "Hello!?!" she said in a very expecting tone. - 2012, K. C. Williams, The All In Alchemist:

Forms

more expecting most expecting

Synonyms

pregnant enceinte in a delicate situation in the family way

Derived

expectingly expectingness unexpecting

Noun

  1. The process by which somebody expects something.
    • In this process participants become immersed in the dynamic interplay of rememberings, communal extraction, imaginings, expectings, etc., and of singular perceptions of each of these separately and as they come together...

Forms

expectings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of expect