Definitions for anticipate

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anticipate an·tic·i·pate

Spelling: [an-tis-uh-peyt]

IPA: /ænˈtɪs əˌpeɪt/

Anticipate is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 347 anagrams from letters in anticipate (aaceiinptt).

Definitions for anticipate

verb (used with object)

1. to realize beforehand; foretaste or foresee:
2. to expect; look forward to; be sure of:
3. to perform (an action) before another has had time to act.
4. to answer (a question), obey (a command), or satisfy (a request) before it is made:
5. to nullify, prevent, or forestall by taking countermeasures in advance:
6. to consider or mention before the proper time:
7. to be before (another) in doing, thinking, achieving, etc.:
8. Finance. to expend (funds) before they are legitimately available for use. to discharge (an obligation) before it is due.

verb (used without object)

1. to think, speak, act, or feel an emotional response in advance.

Origin of anticipate

1525-35; Latin anticipātus taken before, anticipated (past participle of anticipāre), equivalent to anti- (variant of ante- ante-) + -cip- (combining form of capere t

Examples for anticipate

She was distrustful of the future, and apt to anticipate bad fortune.

But the killers clearly failed to anticipate the uproar that would follow.

"We anticipate that when we first start training, we won't have that many [recruits] to begin with," said a defense official.

The officers explained that those Sikhs had been lynched to death and that Singh ought to anticipate the same fate for himself.

These insights and discoveries help PepsiCo anticipate, rather than react to, an ever-changing consumer landscape.

This junction O'Neill was determined to defeat, and did defeat it;—but let us not anticipate.

But I do not anticipate that we shall ever have much malgamite on our hands.

It is not at all hard to anticipate additional forces—Turkmens and others—joining the fray in the future.

Not to anticipate events, however, we will now return to the party in the launch.

But we need not anticipate evil: that is to send out for the suffering.