All expectant synonyms

adjective expectant

• eager — keen or ardent in desire or feeling; impatiently longing: I am eager for news about them. He is eager to sing.
• hopeful — full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.
• hoping — the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best: to give up hope.
• on tenterhooks — one of the hooks or bent nails that hold cloth stretched on a tenter.
• excited — awakened
• anxious — If you are anxious to do something or anxious that something should happen, you very much want to do it or very much want it to happen.
• keen — finely sharpened, as an edge; so shaped as to cut or pierce substances readily: a keen razor.
• anticipating — to realize beforehand; foretaste or foresee: to anticipate pleasure.
• alert — If you are alert, you are paying full attention to things around you and are able to deal with anything that might happen.
• anticipative — inclined to anticipate; of or full of anticipation
• apprehensive — Someone who is apprehensive is afraid that something bad may happen.
• awaiting — waiting
• breathless — If you are breathless, you have difficulty in breathing properly, for example because you have been running or because you are afraid or excited.
• on edge — a line or border at which a surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle edges.
• prepared — properly expectant, organized, or equipped; ready: prepared for a hurricane.
• raring — very eager or anxious; enthusiastic: raring to go.
• ready — completely prepared or in fit condition for immediate action or use: troops ready for battle; Dinner is ready.
• vigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
• waiting — an act or instance of waiting or awaiting; delay; halt: a wait at the border.
• watchful — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
• with bated breath — to moderate or restrain: unable to bate our enthusiasm.
• pregnant — convincing; cogent: a pregnant argument.
• in the family way — a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family. a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for: a single-parent family.
• enceinte — An enclosure or the enclosing wall of a fortified place.
• gravid — pregnant1 (def 1).
• parturient — bearing or about to bear young; travailing.