Anticipate
[æn'tɪsɪpeɪt] or [æn'tɪsə'pet]
Definition
(verb.) be a forerunner of or occur earlier than; 'This composition anticipates Impressionism'.
(verb.) realize beforehand.
(verb.) be excited or anxious about.
(verb.) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time.
Checker: Lucille--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.
(v. t.) To take up or introduce beforehand, or before the proper or normal time; to cause to occur earlier or prematurely; as, the advocate has anticipated a part of his argument.
(v. t.) To foresee (a wish, command, etc.) and do beforehand that which will be desired.
(v. t.) To foretaste or foresee; to have a previous view or impression of; as, to anticipate the pleasures of a visit; to anticipate the evils of life.
Editor: Mervin
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Go before, get the start of.[2]. Take up beforehand, consider in advance.[3]. Foretaste, forestall, antedate.[4]. Expect, forecast, foresee, look forward to, count upon, reckon upon, calculate upon, prepare one's self for.
Checker: Wade
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Forestall, prejudge, expect, foretaste, apprehend, prevent, prearrange,prepare, prejudge, meet, obviate, intercept, forecast
ANT:Remember, recollect, remedy, recall, undo, cure, misapprehend
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Definition
v.t. to be beforehand with (another person or thing) to forestall or preoccupy: to take in hand or consider before the due time: to foresee: realise beforehand or count upon as certain: to expect.—v.t. and v.i. to accelerate: to occur earlier than.—adj. and n. Antic′ipant anticipating anticipative.—n. Anticipā′tion act of anticipating: assignment to too early a time: foretaste: previous notion or presentiment: expectation.—adjs. Anti′cipātive Anti′cipātory.—advs. Anticipā′tively Anticipā′torily (rare).
Checker: Virgil
Examples
- Pleasure not known beforehand is half wasted; to anticipate it is to double it. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I can anticipate all you would say. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Graham did look: but this was not to be endured; I saw how it must endso I thought it best to anticipate. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They represented the future she had chosen, and she was content with it, but in no haste to anticipate its joys. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- No matter if it were your twenty-ninth; we will anticipate no feelings by discussion and conversation; we will not talk about love. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In short, you recommend me to anticipate the arrival of my second childhood, said poor Mr. Casaubon, with some bitterness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Then you still anticipate trouble? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The ideas of Kay, Wyatt and Hargreaves are said to have been anticipated in Italy. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A meeting, which he anticipated with such joy, so strangely turned to bitterness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Nothing, for you have anticipated my answer. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- What shall we say to the instinct which leads the bee to make cells, and which has practically anticipated the discoveries of profound mathematicians? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The parsonage was so altered, both inside and out, that the real pain was less than she had anticipated. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The officiating damsel, who had anticipated the order before it was given, set the glass of spirits before Pell, and retired. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- No door-bell had rung; Rosine--acting doubtless by orders--had anticipated such réveillée. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Mr. Snagsby turns up the gas and coughs behind his hand, modestly anticipating profit. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You speak my sentiments precisely, ma'am, said Shirley, and I thank you for anticipating me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Tal Hajus arose, and I, half fearing, half anticipating his intentions, hurried to the winding runway which led to the floors below. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- But in this we are anticipating the definition of justice, and had therefore better defer the enquiry. Plato. The Republic.
- If he renewed it (and I had reasons, shortly to be mentioned, for anticipating that he would), I might be certain of his not escaping me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And so, as you have honoured me by anticipating, I examined the document. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Anticipating an easier victory than she had foreseen, she named an exorbitant sum. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Lady Dedlock languidly anticipates. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He anticipates Bacon and the modern scientific movement in his realization of the importance of ordered knowledge. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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