anticipative

1. 1.

   marked by eager anticipation

   “an expectant hush”

   Synonymsanticipantexpectant

   Similarhopeful

Questions about anticipative

What does anticipative mean?

anticipative means "marked by eager anticipation".

How many syllables are in anticipative?

anticipative has 5 syllables: an-ti-ci-pa-tive. The stress falls on "ci".

What is another word for anticipative?

Close synonyms include anticipant, expectant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anticipative a common word?

anticipative is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.