expectant

About 1.16 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Marked by expectation.

   the expectant hush before the performance

2. adjective Pregnant.

   an expectant mother

3. adjective Awaiting the effects of nature, with little active treatment.
4. adjective A triage classification for a patient in a mass casualty event with injuries so severe they are unlikely to survive even with maximum medical care.

   Do you agree the patient is expectant, or is there something we can do to save her?

5. noun A person who expects or awaits something.

Similar words

anticipative anticipant hopeful great large big heavy pregnant enceinte gravid

Often followed by

mother mothers and of parents management on father fathers

Word family

expectantly expectants