1. anticipate

verb. ['ænˈtɪsəˌpeɪt'] regard something as probable or likely.

Rhymes with Anticipate

• participate
• dissipate

How do you pronounce anticipate?

Pronounce anticipate as ænˈtɪsəˌpeɪt.

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Sentences with anticipate

1. Verb, base form
Or, perhaps there were consequences you did not anticipate.

2. Verb, non-3rd person singular present
Children often anticipate a "goody bag" at the end of a birthday party they attend.

Quotes about anticipate

1. I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.
- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

2. The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos

3. that you would not anticipate misery since the evils you dread as coming upon you may perhaps never reach you at least they are not yet come Thus some things torture us more than they ought, some before they ought and some which ought never to torture us at all. We heighten our pain either by presupposing a cause or anticipation
- Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

2. anticipate

verb. ['ænˈtɪsəˌpeɪt'] act in advance of; deal with ahead of time.

3. anticipate

verb. ['ænˈtɪsəˌpeɪt'] realize beforehand.

4. anticipate

verb. ['ænˈtɪsəˌpeɪt'] make a prediction about; tell in advance.

5. anticipate

verb. ['ænˈtɪsəˌpeɪt'] be excited or anxious about.

6. anticipate

verb. ['ænˈtɪsəˌpeɪt'] be a forerunner of or occur earlier than.