Definition of expected

"expected" in the verb sense

1. expect, anticipate

regard something as probable or likely

"The meteorologists are expecting rain for tomorrow"

2. ask, require, expect

consider obligatory request and expect

"We require our secretary to be on time"

"Aren't we asking too much of these children?"

"I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons"

3. expect, look, await, wait

look forward to the probable occurrence of

"We were expecting a visit from our relatives"

"She is looking to a promotion"

"he is waiting to be drafted"

4. expect

consider reasonable or due

"I'm expecting a full explanation as to why these files were destroyed"

5. expect

look forward to the birth of a child

"She is expecting in March"

6. have a bun in the oven, bear, carry, gestate, expect

be pregnant with

"She is bearing his child"

"The are expecting another child in January"

"I am carrying his child"

"expected" in the adjective sense

1. expected

considered likely or probable to happen or arrive

"prepared for the expected attack"

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Quotations for expected

Expected benefits.

Misfortunes should always be expected. [ Johnson ]

A gift much expected is paid, not given. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A pleasure long expected is dear enough sold. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

From great folks great favours are to be expected. [ Cervantes ]

It is in vain to use words when deeds are expected. [ Proverb ]

It is always nice to be expected and not to arrive. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

No golden age ever called itself golden, but only expected one. [ Jean Paul ]

It is the danger which is least expected that soonest comes to us. [ Francois M. A. de Voltaire ]

A paradisiacal temper is not to be expected from postdiluvian mortals. [ Proverb ]

The hour of happiness will come the more welcome when it is not expected. [ Horace ]

Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master. [ Martial ]

When we meet with a natural style, we are surprised and delighted, for we expected to find an author, and we have found a man. [ Pascal ]

When people talk to each other, they never say what they mean. They say something else and you're expected to just know what they mean. [ Alan Turing ]

Eloquence may be found in conversation and all kinds of writings; it is rarely where we seek it, and sometimes where it is least expected. [ La Bruyere ]

To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Travelling is like gambling; it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

There is perhaps no time at which we are disposed to think so highly of a friend, as when we find him standing higher than we expected in the esteem of others. [ Sir W. Scott ]

Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists; except in the cases of kindred or other legal affinity, it is in reality no longer expected or recognised as a virtue among men. [ Carlyle ]

All courageous animals are carnivorous, and greater courage is to be expected in a people, such as the English, whose food is strong and hearty, than in the half starved commonalty of other countries. [ Sir W. Temple ]

More marriages are ruined nowadays by the common sense of the husband than by anything else. How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly rational being. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

What with the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or pleasure. It gives one position and prevents one from keeping it up. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled. [ Johnson ]

expected in Scrabble®

The word expected is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 20

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters expected:

EXPECTED
(207)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word expected

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In expected

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expected in Words With Friends™

The word expected is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 22

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters expected:

EXPECTED
(180)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word expected

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In expected

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Words within the letters of expected

2 letter words in expected (2 words)

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5 letter words in expected (1 word)

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8 letter words in expected (Anagrams) (2 words)

expected + 1 blank (1 word)

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Word Growth involving expected

Shorter words in expected

ex expect

pe expect

Longer words containing expected

expectedly unexpectedly

expectedness unexpectedness

longexpected

overexpected

unexpected unexpectedly

unexpected unexpectedness