EXPECTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does expected mean? 

• EXPECTED (adjective)
  The adjective EXPECTED has 1 sense:

1. considered likely or probable to happen or arrive

  Familiarity information: EXPECTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPECTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Considered likely or probable to happen or arrive

Context example:

prepared for the expected attack

Similar:

anticipated; awaited; hoped-for (expected hopefully)

due (scheduled to arrive)

expectable (to be expected)

matter-of-course (expected or depended upon as a natural or logical outcome)

Also:

unsurprising (not causing surprise)

Antonym:

unexpected (not expected or anticipated)

Derivation:

expectedness (the state of being that is commonly observed)

 Context examples 

I expected no peace—no pleasure there.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The larger than expected forecast was caused by heavy June rains throughout the Mississippi River watershed.

(2015 Gulf of Mexico dead zone ‘above average’, NOAA)

The targets are within the expected landing area at a distance of about three miles (five kilometers) from its center.

('Lost' 2003 Mars Lander Found by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA)

The discovery is expected to shed light on how the feathers of dinosaurs formed and evolved.

(Dinosaur Tail Found in Myanmar, VOA News)

SpaceX is a private company that is expected to begin transporting U.S. astronauts into space next year.

(SpaceX Completes Successful Rocket Launch, VOA News)

By the way, are you by any chance the Malone who is expected to get his Rugby cap for Ireland?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was not such an awful voice as she had expected to come from the big Head; so she took courage and answered: I am Dorothy, the Small and Meek.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Here was the task, not what she had expected, but better because self had no part in it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He would not have ventured so long a trip had he not expected generous profits.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Then he went to the innkeeper, who opened his eyes very wide, and said: I never expected to see you alive again!

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)