Associations to the word «Expectant»

Wiktionary

EXPECTANT, adjective. Marked by expectation.
EXPECTANT, adjective. Pregnant.
EXPECTANT, adjective. (medicine) (dated) Waiting for the efforts of nature, with little active treatment.

Dictionary definition

EXPECTANT, adjective. Marked by eager anticipation; "an expectant hush".
EXPECTANT, adjective. In an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child".

Wise words

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
Aeschylus