expected

1. 1.

   considered likely or probable to happen or arrive

   “prepared for the expected attack”

   Antonymsunexpected

   Similaranticipateddueexpectablematter-of-course

Questions about expected

What does expected mean?

expected means "considered likely or probable to happen or arrive".

How many syllables are in expected?

expected has 3 syllables: ex-pec-ted. The stress falls on "pec". In IPA it is /ɪkˈspɛktəd/.

What is the opposite of expected?

The recorded antonyms are unexpected.

Is expected a common word?

expected is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.