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Expect: Meaning, Usage, and Common Mistakes (2 meaning)

Meaning 1：Anticipate (expect)

expect 🔊

/ɪkˈspɛkt/

To believe that something is likely to happen.

Person checking weather forecast app with umbrella ready

Anticipate 🔊

➕

/ænˈtɪsɪpeɪt/

To think that something will happen in the future; to believe that an event is likely to occur.

📁 Category：Behaviors & Actions 🔖 Level：Beginner

📘 Details & Usage

📖 Root Explanation

From Latin 'ex-' (out) + 'spectare' (to look), meaning 'to look forward to'.

💡 Mnemonic

Picture a spy looking out (ex) of a window with a telescope (spect) waiting for a signal.

📖 Example

The weather forecast says it will rain tomorrow, so we expect to stay indoors. 🔊 The weather forecast says it will rain tomorrow, so we expect to stay indoors.

🔗 Collocations

expect to do – To anticipate performing an action.

expect that – To believe that a certain situation will occur.

expect something from – To anticipate receiving or achieving something from a source.

🔄 Synonyms

anticipate (v.) – To expect or predict something.

foresee (v.) – To see or know beforehand.

predict (v.) – To say that something will happen in the future.

🚫 Antonyms

doubt (v.) – To question the likelihood of something.

be surprised (phrase) – To react with astonishment because something was not expected.

🌱 Derivatives

expectation (n.) – A belief that something will happen.

expected (adj.) – Regarded as likely to happen.

expectant (adj.) – Having or showing an excited feeling that something is about to happen.

📖 Cultural Story

Entered English via Latin 'expectare' (ex- 'out' + spectare 'to look'), originally meaning 'to look out for, await'. By the 16th century, it took on the sense of 'anticipate' or 'demand'.

Meaning 2：Require (expect)

expect 🔊

/ɪkˈspɛkt/

To think that someone should do something or something should happen in a certain way.

Teacher handing out worksheets to attentive students in classroom

Require 🔊

➕

/rɪˈkwaɪər/

To believe that someone is obliged to do something; to consider something as necessary or appropriate.

📁 Category：School Education 🔖 Level：Beginner

📘 Details & Usage

📖 Example

Our teacher expects us to finish the homework before Friday. 🔊 Our teacher requires us to finish the homework before Friday.

🔗 Collocations

expect someone to do – To require or assume that a person will perform an action.

expect something of someone – To have a standard that someone should meet.

expect that – To believe it is necessary that something happens.

🔄 Synonyms

require (v.) – To demand as necessary.

demand (v.) – To ask for something firmly and forcefully.

insist (v.) – To demand forcefully that something happen.

🚫 Antonyms

allow (v.) – To permit or let something happen.

permit (v.) – To give consent or authorization.

let (v.) – To allow or enable someone to do something.

🌱 Derivatives

expectation (n.) – A belief that something will happen, often with a sense of obligation.

expected (adj.) – Regarded as required or appropriate.

expectant (adj.) – Showing anticipation, especially of something required.