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ANTICIPATIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does anticipative mean?
• ANTICIPATIVE (adjective)
The adjective ANTICIPATIVE has 1 sense:
1. marked by eager anticipation
Familiarity information: ANTICIPATIVE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by eager anticipation
Synonyms:
anticipant; anticipative; expectant
Context example:
an expectant hush
Similar:
hopeful (having or manifesting hope)
Derivation:
anticipate (be excited or anxious about)
Context examples
He had a singular red cap on,—not like a sailor's cap, but of a finer colour; and as the few yielding planks between him and destruction rolled and bulged, and his anticipative death-knell rung, he was seen by all of us to wave it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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