different between expectable vs expect

English

Etymology

expect +? -able

Adjective

expectable (comparative more expectable, superlative most expectable)

1. Able to be expected.
   1. Able to be expected or anticipated; not unusual.

      Expectable losses are calculated into the final selling price.

   2. Able to be expected or considered due or required (of someone), reasonable to expect (someone to do, have, etc).
      • c. 1964, Donald R. Mergenhagen v. George R. Mergenhagen, case before the Supreme Court of New York, appellate division, fourth department, in State of New York Supreme Court Appellate Division Fourth Department, page 265:

        The jury could and did find that appellant's decision not to move was not a decision expectable of a reasonably prudent man to whom any backing vehicle means grave danger.

      • 1987, Geoffrey M. White, John Kirkpatrick, Person, Self, and Experience: Exploring Pacific Ethnopsychologies, Univ of California Press (?ISBN), page 91:

        An argument can be made that the Marquesan view of certain states as expectable of 'persons' follows from these being equally examples of a common type of process.

      • 2004, Raymond M. Scurfield, A Vietnam Trilogy, Vol. I: Veterans and Post Traumatic Stress, 1968, 1989, 2000, Algora Publishing (?ISBN), page 206:

        And that is the tragedy of the establishment of the diagnosis of PTSD. The presence of troubling war-related memories and associated negative reactions typically has much more to do with what is normal and expectable of almost anyone who has survived war  ...

      • 2008, Leonard Swidler, Paul Mojzes, The Uniqueness of Jesus: A Dialogue with Paul F. Knitter, Wipf and Stock Publishers (?ISBN), page 64:

        Such issues finally turn on two counts; namely, what is most opposite to the human scene, and what is most properly worth, or—may we say— “expectable” of God.

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Alternative forms

• axpact, ax-pact (Bermuda)

Etymology

From Latin expect?re, infinitive form of exspect? (“look out for, await, expect”), from ex (“out”) + spect? (“look at”), frequentative of speci? (“see”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?sp?kt/, /?k?sp?kt/
• Hyphenation: ex?pect
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

expect (third-person singular simple present expects, present participle expecting, simple past and past participle expected)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To predict or believe that something will happen

   Synonyms: anticipate, hope, look for

   • 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns

     And temperatures are expected to keep rising.

2. To consider obligatory or required.

   Synonyms: call for, demand

   • 1805, Nelson, Horatio via Pasco, John, signal sent at the Battle of Trafalgar:

     England expects that every man will do his duty.

3. To consider reasonably due.

   Synonyms: hope, want, wish

4. (continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
   • 2011, Eva Fischer-Dixon, The Bestseller

     “You are pregnant?” he asked with shock in his voice. “Yes, Justin, I am expecting a child,”

5. (obsolete, transitive) To wait for; to await.

   Synonyms: await; see also Thesaurus:wait for

   • 1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A. and C. Black (1868), 24-25:

     The knight fixed his eyes on the opening with breathless anxiety, and continuing to kneel in the attitude of devotion which the place and scene required, expected the consequence of these preparations.

6. (obsolete, intransitive) To wait; to stay.

   Synonym: wait

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sandys to this entry?)

Usage notes

• Expect is a mental act and mostly has a reference to the future, to some forthcoming event (e.g. a person expects to die, or he expects to survive). Think and believe may have reference to the past and present, as well as to the future (e.g. I think the mail has arrived; I believe he came home yesterday, that he is at home now). There is a not uncommon use of expect, which is a confusion of the two (e.g. I expect the mail has arrived; I expect he is at home). Await is a physical or moral act. We await something which, when it comes, will affect us personally. We expect what may, or may not, interest us personally. See also anticipate.
• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

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Further reading

• expect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• expect in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• expect at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• except