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What is the adjective for expectantly?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb expect which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

expectant
  1. Marked by expectation.
  2. Pregnant.
  3. (medicine) Awaiting the effects of nature, with little active treatment.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “A cheap sound system pumped out drum and bass as a sparse yet expectant crowd gathered.”
      “You might not be planning another baby just yet, but discovering a company's attitude to pregnant employees and expectant fathers will give you an insight into its general views on parenting.”
      “A story about the birth of quintuplets shouldn't send all expectant couples scurrying to buy 5 cribs.”
expectative
  1. Of or pertaining to an expectation
  2. (canon law) Of or pertaining to the reversion of a benefice
  3. Examples:
    1. “We make the results tracking and the expectative suitableness, in accordance with the stipulated quality controls and the offered guarantees.”
      “It was too slow for their eagerness and expectative grants were sought for and made in advance so as to profit by the next victim.”
      “They went to Stuttgart, where the Wrtemberg Government kept up a sort of expectative neutrality.”
expecting
expected
expectable
  1. To be expected; not unusual.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “That kind of explanation on the part of the companies is expectable, but it's a cop-out.”
      “But that is in fact an almost expectable event around his age, when people must come to terms with their limitations and old dreams for themselves.”
      “For infants, an expectable environment requires protective and nurturing adults, as well as opportunities for socialization within a culture.”
expectible
  1. Obsolete form of expectable.
expectational
  1. Relating to expectation.
  2. Examples:
    1. “But once that expectational anchor began to drag, unions had reason to fear that inflation, once ignited, would persist.”
      “They further suggest that expectational errors in pricing money market assets have likely been reduced.”
      “Deviations will occur, and may persist for some time, owing to the intrinsic and expectational dynamics of the system.”
expective
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