What does expected mean?

Definitions for expected
ex·pect·ed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. expectedadjective

    considered likely or probable to happen or arrive

    "prepared for the expected attack"

Wiktionary

  1. expectedadjective

    Anticipated; thought to be about to arrive or occur

    The expected storm never arrived.

ChatGPT

  1. expected

    Expected generally refers to something that is considered likely or certain to happen, occur or be achieved. It's a belief or anticipation regardings a future event or outcome, potentially based on patterns, past experiences, assumptions or calculations. This term is often used in various contexts, including mathematics (expected value), computing, business and daily life.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Expected

    of Expect

Editors Contribution

  1. expectedverb

    Verb form of the word expect.

    They expected justice and truth and they got it.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 17, 2020  

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'expected' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #631

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'expected' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1849

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'expected' in Adjectives Frequency: #577

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of expected in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of expected in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of expected in a Sentence

  1. Rohini Bhole:

    Jerry Lee is expected to fully recover with aggressive and intensive rehab, from what I have seen thus far, he is heading in the right direction.

  2. Gwen Berry:

    It's as if they [the ruling bodies of track and field] just assume that I shouldn't say anything they consider 'over the line', if you say anything that addresses the reality of racial inequality in this country and in this sport, you're pulled back because it doesn't fit in with how you're expected to perform.

  3. The FRA:

    The removal and replacement of these valves are not expected to significantly disrupt freight rail traffic.

  4. Mark Kelly:

    I expected this to not be easy. A year is a long time, you have to pace yourself.

  5. Tayla Harris:

    I don’t know what I expected with life becoming so public but I thought, if you just try to be kind, people will be kind back to you. The world doesn’t necessarily work that way. Now every step I took, or everything I did, I was judged.

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