expecting

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of expect

comparative more expecting · superlative most expecting

1. not comparableOf a woman, female animal, or couple, in expectation of giving birth; pregnant.

   When is the new couple expecting?

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   The expecting mother is enthusiastic about learning childcare.

2. Expectant.

   "Hello!?!" she said in a very expecting tone.

   2012, K. C. Williams, The All In Alchemist

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   Dunscomb was in the sanctum, while a single clerk and three or four clients, countryment of decent exterior and very expecting countenances, occupied the outer room .

   1850, James Fenimore Cooper, The Ways of the Hour

   Parma, unwilling to fight an action which might force France into the field, raised the siege; and Alençon, having strengthened the garrison, thrown in supplies, saved his credit with the Low Countries, and at all events, compromised himself, fell back into his expecting attitude, waiting for Elizabeth to reward him .

   1862, James Anthony Froude, History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of the Spanish Armada, page 419

plural expectings

1. The process by which somebody expects something.

   In this process participants become immersed in the dynamic interplay of rememberings, communal extraction, imaginings, expectings, etc., and of singular perceptions of each of these separately and as they come together […]

   1998, Merrelyn Emery, Searching: The Theory and Practice of Making Cultural Change