Expected Synonyms & Antonyms

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Synonyms for expectedex·pect·ed

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1. expectedadjective

   Antonyms:unexpected, unlikely, surprising

2. expectedadjective

   The expected storm never arrived.

   Antonyms:surprising, unexpected, unlikely

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1. expectedadjective

   considered likely or probable to happen or arrive

   "prepared for the expected attack"

   Antonyms:unhoped, unannounced, out of the blue(p), upset(a), unprovided for(p), unthought-of, unforeseen, unexpected, unpredicted, unhoped-for, unlooked-for, unanticipated, unthought, unheralded

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1. List of paraphrases for "expected":

   anticipated, planned, hoped, projected, waited, foreseen, desired, awaited, scheduled, intended, envisaged, wait, predicted, should, forecast, hoped-for, expectations, waiting, expects, predictable, forecasted, provided, looked, due, foreseeable, prescribed, likely

How to pronounce expected?

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Words popularity by usage frequency

ranking	word
#134	should
#482	provided
#761	due
#1481	likely
#1516	expected
#2071	wait
#2193	intended
#2488	looked
#2633	waiting
#2693	forecast
#3494	planned
#3596	scheduled
#4500	desired
#4702	expectations
#6360	prescribed
#7187	predicted
#7427	projected
#7437	anticipated
#9866	expects
#9960	hoped
#11694	waited
#14800	predictable
#19775	awaited
#24943	foreseeable
#25124	envisaged
#32795	foreseen
#39114	forecasted

How to use expected in a sentence?

1. Hurricane Center:

   Across the rest of coastal Texas into southwest Louisiana rainfall of 5 to 10 inches is expected. This rainfall may produce areas of considerable flash and urban flooding, especially in highly urbanized metropolitan areas.

2. Rick Meckler:

   This is hardly a big selloff but we are having trouble breaking through( to new highs on the S&P) because of a lack of consistently good earnings and economic data, one of the few positives is a weaker dollar but it is hard to see a reason for that to continue ; rates are being lowered around the world and expected to rise here( in the United States), there's no clear path to a lower dollar.

3. Yutaka Miura:

   If the Fed hikes a rate as expected, people are watching whether recently sold assets such as U.S. shares, oil and the dollar will rebound, if they rebound, the market will likely be stabilized, but if not, we have to prepare for another sell-off.

4. Michael Bolliger:

   Things played out in the way we had all expected so we can tick this box and move on.

5. Abdul Ghani:

   Abdul Ghani 65, lived in the northwestern Pakistan city of Jehangira for almost 39 years, and moved Abdul Ghani 65 family to Abdul Ghani 65 native Kunar Province in Afghanistan October. Now Abdul Ghani 65 finds Abdul Ghani 65 and Abdul Ghani 65 family caught up in the struggled that go along with a homecoming. Look at the situation of house, a hut in a tent colony for refugees. We have no safe drinking water and our children have not enough clothes. I never expected to face this condition in my native country.

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• očekávanýCzech
• erwartetGerman
• anticipadoSpanish
• انتظار می رودPersian
• odotettavissaFinnish
• attenduFrench
• vártHungarian
• צפויHebrew
• 想定内, 予想内, 織り込み済み, 予想通りJapanese
• forventet, ventetNorwegian
• esperadoPortuguese
• ожидаемыйRussian
• అంచనాTelugu
• очікувалосяUkrainian
• توقعUrdu
• kỳ vọngVietnamese
• 预期Chinese

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