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EXPECTED

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Considered likely or probable to happen or arrive

Example:

prepared for the expected attack

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

anticipated; awaited; hoped-for (expected hopefully)

due (scheduled to arrive)

expectable (to be expected)

matter-of-course (expected or depended upon as a natural or logical outcome)

Also:

unsurprising (not causing surprise)

Antonym:

unexpected (not expected or anticipated)

Derivation:

expectedness (the state of being that is commonly observed)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb expect

Credits

 Context examples: 

The new pill dissolves in the mouth and in the water, and is expected to be more easily accepted by children.

(New HIV medicine under development for children in Brazil, Agência Brasil/EBC)

As expected, all these data suggest a trove of water ice throughout the Martian poles and mid-latitudes.

(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)

She knew not that she had any right to be surprised, but there was a something in this mode of approach which she certainly had not expected.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Because humans have never commercially harvested penguins, Polito and colleagues expected that changes in penguins' diets and populations would mirror shifts in krill availability.

(Whaling and climate change lead to 100 years of feast or famine for Antarctic penguins, National Science Foundation)

This means that water, a dominant carrier of oxygen, is also expected to be overabundant in such atmospheres.

(Water common – yet scarce – in exoplanets, University of Cambridge)

An artifact that results when an imaging agent is not absorbed or metabolized at the expected rate.

(Abnormal Uptake Kinetics, NCI Thesaurus)

Reported values outside the typical or expected range.

(Abnormal Reference Range, NCI Thesaurus)

However, she did not develop signs of the disease until her 70s, nearly three decades after her expected age of onset.

(Unique case of disease resistance reveals possible Alzheimer’s treatment, National Institutes of Health)

This result has implications for rainfall in the Asia-Pacific region as under increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, surface temperature over the Maritime Continent is expected to continue to rise.

(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)

He was invited to Kellynch Hall; he was talked of and expected all the rest of the year; but he never came.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)