expectantly

Adverb

Meaning

in an expectant manner

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Synonyms

actively eagerly confidently ardently impatiently greedily imminently breathlessly longingly hungrily yearningly thirstily covetously expectedly optimistically

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Antonyms

fatally futilely perfunctorily gloomily alertly desolately

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Examples

If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked. Bill Hybels

He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa. Augusten Burroughs

We can look forward expectantly to a beautified, restored earth where there is complete peace, tranquility and safety. No crime. No storms. Only peace. What a hope! Paul Enns

ADORE, v.t. To venerate expectantly. Ambrose Bierce

she looked at him expectantly Source: Internet

As two old ladies enter her room and gaze expectantly at her, other women try to enter, but Zorba manages to fight them off. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

expectant expectant mother expectant mothers expectation expectation of the worst expectation of worst