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expected

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ɪkˈspɛk.tɪd//

Anticipated; thought to be about to arrive or occur.

adjective

  1. 1

    Anticipated; thought to be about to arrive or occur.

    The expected storm never arrived.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of expectsimple past and past participle of expect

Forms

comparative
more expected
superlative
most expected
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).