What does expecting mean?
Expecting means present participle and gerund of expect.
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/ɪkˈspɛktɪŋ/ · verb
present participle and gerund of expect.
The expecting mother is enthusiastic about learning childcare.
When is the new couple expecting?
Dunscomb was in the sanctum, while a single clerk and three or four clients, countryment of decent exterior and very expecting countenances, occupied the outer room .
Parma, unwilling to fight an action which might force France into the field, raised the siege; and Alençon, having strengthened the garrison, thrown in supplies, saved his credit with the Low Countries, and at all events, compromised himself, fell back into his expecting attitude, waiting for Elizabeth to reward him .
"Hello!?!" she said in a very expecting tone.
In this process participants become immersed in the dynamic interplay of rememberings, communal extraction, imaginings, expectings, etc., and of singular perceptions of each of these separately and as they come together […]
Use expecting when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Expecting means present participle and gerund of expect.
Common synonyms include pregnant, enceinte, in a delicate situation, in the family way.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The expecting mother is enthusiastic about learning childcare.
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