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Definition of expected : of Expect

Synonyms:

expectable, scheduled, predicted, likely, supposed, prospective, habitual, surprise, due, hoped-for, conventional, normal, predictable, potential, familiar

dreamed of, relied, aspired, yearned, hoped, desired, believed, wanted, dreamt of, trusted

contemplated, apprehended, envisaged, imagined, gathered, foreseen, envisioned, foresaw, inferred, dreaded, awaited, deduced, presupposed, assumed, surmised, foreknew, presumed, suspected, foretold, unsurprised, foreboded, foreknown

schemed, tried, aimed, considered, planned, chosen, proposed, meant, endeavored, chose, intended, minded, resolved, wished

charted, arranged, plotted, contrived, invented, coordinated, blueprinted, designed, conceived, anticipated, premeditated

craved, thirsted, hankered, lusted, hungered, itched, welcomed, needed, longed, pined, coveted, fancied, grasped

prophesied

converging, nearby, advancing, forthcoming, imminent, closing, proximate, coming, near, impending, looming, approaching

Usage examples:

• She was not the kind of child Edna might have expected to find in such a little house. - "A Dear Little Girl at School", Amy E. Blanchard.
• " That's the reason why I'm still here, and not two days out, as I had expected. - "Love, The Fiddler", Lloyd Osbourne.
• Nor could this be expected. - "Paris As It Was and As It Is", Francis W. Blagdon.