Word Meanings - INEXPECTABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall.

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• ANTICIPATIVE
  Anticipating, or containing anticipation. "Anticipative of the feast to come." Cary. -- An*tic"i*pa*tive*ly, adv.
• EXPECTATION
  The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. Expectation of life, the mean or average duration of the life individuals after any specified age. Syn. -- Anticipation; confidence; trust. (more info) 1. The act
• EXPECT
  1. To wait for; to await. Let's in, and there expect their coming. Shak. 2. To look for ; to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look
• EXPECTORANT
  Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat. -- n.
• EXPECTANT
  Waiting in expectation; looking for;
• EXPECTANCE; EXPECTANCY
  1. The act of expecting ; expectation. Milton. 2. That which is expected, or looked or waited for with interest; the object of expectation or hope. The expectancy and rose of the fair state. Shak. Estate in expectancy , one the possession of which
• EXPECTABLE
  That may be expected or looked for. Sir T. Browne.
• EXPECTORATIVE
  See HARVEY
• EXPECTORATE
  To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.
• ANTICIPATORY
  Forecasting; of the nature of anticipation. Owen. Here is an anticipatory glance of what was to be. J. C. Shairp.
• EXPECTIVE
  Expectative. Shipley.
• EXPECTER
  One who expects.
• EXPECTORATION
  1. The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting. 2. That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.
• ANTICIPATOR
  One who anticipates.
• EXPECTATIVE
  Constituting an object of expectation; contingent. Expectative grace, a mandate given by the pope or a prince appointing a successor to any benefice before it becomes vacant. Foxe.
• ANTICIPATE
  1. To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action. To anticipate and prevent the duke's purpose. R. Hall. He would probably have died by the hand of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not
• EXPECTEDLY
  In conformity with expectation. Walpole.
• ANTICIPATION
  The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord. Syn. -- Preoccupation; preclusion; foretaste; prelibation; antepast; pregustation; preconception; expectation; foresight; forethought.
• EXPECTINGLY
  In state of expectation.
• INEXPECTABLE
  Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall.
• UNEXPECTATION
  Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall.
• UNEXPECTED
  Not expected; coming without warning; sudden. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ness, n.
• INEXPECTED
  Unexpected.
• PREEXPECTATION
  Previous expectation.
• INEXPECTEDLY
  Unexpectedly.
• INEXPECTANT
  Not expectant. C. Bronté.