Dictionary Entry
anticipation
anticipation is a 12-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
12 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 20 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
- 2noun
Previous view or impression of what is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven.
- 3noun
Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.
- 4noun
The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord.
- 5noun
the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
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- 6noun
something expected (as on the basis of a norm)
"each of them had their own anticipations"
"an indicator of expectancy in development"
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- 7noun
an expectation
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- 8noun
anticipating with confidence of fulfillment
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