🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

anticipado

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /an.ti.siˈpa.ðo/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Anticipated/ænˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪ.tɪd/
adjectiveverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1450 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Fue un resultado muy anticipado por los analistas."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Regarded as likely to happen; expected or awaited.

    "The highly anticipated movie finally premiered in theaters worldwide."
As verb
  1. 1

    To realize beforehand, foresee, or look forward to an event.

    "We anticipated a massive turnout for the annual music festival."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin verb anticipare, formed from ante (before) and capere (to take). Entering English in the 16th century, it originally meant to act before someone else or to forestall, eventually shifting in modern usage to mean looking forward to an event with expectation.

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