Definition for Anticipate:

• be a forerunner of or occur earlier than, as in; " This composition anticipates Impressionism"

Synonyms for Anticipate:

• n.

  •
  • count on,
  • intuit,
  • bargain for,
  • conjecture,
  • prophesy,
  • divine,
  • plan on,
  • suppose,
  • wait for,
  • bargain on,
  • reckon on.
  •
  • intercept,
  • look forward to,
  • cheer,
  • delay,
  • hold back,
  • neglect,
  • treasure,
  • block,
  • brighten,
  • rejoice.
  •
  • guess,
  • see,
  • overestimate,
  • foresight,
  • estimate,
  • underestimate,
  • judge,
  • hazard,
  • gauge.
  •
  • depend on,
  • surprise,
  • figure on.
  •anticipate (noun)
  • expect,
  • look for,
  • call,
  • foreknow,
  • counter,
  • forebode,
  • previse,
  • look to,
  • foretell,
  • forestall,
  • predict,
  • foresee,
  • prognosticate,
  • promise.

• v.

  •act in advance of (verb)
  • delay,
  • preclude,
  • apprehend,
  • hinder,
  • block,
  • forestall,
  • be early,
  • prevent,
  • precede,
  • intercept,
  • provide against,
  • hold back,
  • be one step ahead of,
  • beat someone to it.
  •cognition (verb)
  • expect.
  •expect (verb)
  • await,
  • dread,
  • surmise,
  • presume,
  • envisage,
  • contemplate,
  • envision,
  • bargain for,
  • foresee,
  • apprehend,
  • imagine,
  • assume,
  • presuppose,
  • forebode,
  • deduce,
  • infer,
  • foreknow,
  • suspect,
  • gather.
  •expect; predict (verb)
  • figure,
  • suppose,
  • prognosticate,
  • prevision,
  • forecast,
  • see coming,
  • look forward to,
  • promise oneself,
  • plan on,
  • look for,
  • conjecture,
  • visualize,
  • hope for,
  • cross the bridge,
  • wait,
  • count chickens,
  • have a hunch,
  • entertain,
  • jump the gun,
  • bargain for,
  • see,
  • assume,
  • see in the cards,
  • prepare for,
  • prophesy,
  • wait for,
  • foresee,
  • foretaste,
  • be afraid,
  • count on,
  • foretell,
  • divine,
  • await.
  •hope (verb)
  • trust,
  • dream of,
  • desire,
  • hope,
  • rely,
  • want,
  • yearn,
  • aspire,
  • believe,
  • wish.
  •plan (verb)
  • aim,
  • premeditate,
  • plan,
  • arrange,
  • expect,
  • conceive,
  • design,
  • contrive,
  • intend,
  • plot,
  • propose,
  • scheme,
  • coordinate,
  • invent,
  • chart,
  • blueprint.
  •precede (verb)
  • antedate,
  • head off,
  • pioneer,
  • antecede,
  • introduce,
  • foreshadow,
  • trail-blaze,
  • lead,
  • predate,
  • Forerun,
  • precede.
  •social (verb)
  • counter,
  • foresee,
  • forestall.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • prepare,
  • bargain on,
  • postdate,
  • reckon on.
  •
  • calculate,
  • depend,
  • suppose.
  •
  • count on.
  •
  • draw.
  •
  • mean.
  •
  • bargain.
  •
  • figure.
  •
  • see.
  •abide
  • stay.
  •calculate
  • rely on,
  • depend on.
  •expect
  • bargain for.
  •extrapolate
  • see ahead.
  •fear
  • be afraid.
  •hope
  • promise oneself,
  • watch for.
  •make unnecessary
  • obviate.
  •precede
  • predate,
  • antecede,
  • Forerun,
  • preexist,
  • go before.
  •predict
  • see coming,
  • have a hunch.
  •rely
  • chicken.
  •sense
  • sense,
  • have a feeling,
  • have feeling.
  •stave
  • stave.
  •visualize
  • call up,
  • conceive of,
  • see.
  •Other relevant words:
  • call off,
  • pay,
  • prognostication,
  • provide against,
  • postdate,
  • relish,
  • secure,
  • hope for,
  • trusting,
  • presumption,
  • Preengage,
  • Anachronize,
  • visit,
  • reside,
  • bear,
  • plan on,
  • forecast,
  • augur,
  • taboo,
  • prophesy,
  • figure,
  • plan for,
  • look ahead,
  • smell,
  • forbid,
  • see,
  • inhibit,
  • think,
  • forestall,
  • feel,
  • bespeak,
  • take notice of,
  • be partial to,
  • pour into,
  • wait for,
  • predict,
  • hamper,
  • fancy,
  • discourage,
  • promise oneself,
  • harbinger,
  • rely upon,
  • depend,
  • previously,
  • intuit,
  • foretaste,
  • supposition,
  • see ahead,
  • interdict,
  • be vigilant,
  • expectation,
  • go before,
  • control,
  • shout,
  • dwell,
  • search,
  • vaticinate,
  • neglect,
  • Overdate,
  • balk,
  • loom,
  • enjoy,
  • provide for,
  • account,
  • inhabit,
  • remain,
  • flinch,
  • surprise,
  • halt,
  • reckoning,
  • calculation,
  • come on,
  • gestate,
  • forecasting,
  • face,
  • be afraid,
  • squall,
  • extrapolate,
  • arrest,
  • prevision,
  • estimate,
  • count,
  • sense,
  • slow,
  • schedule,
  • conjecture,
  • foreknowledge,
  • draw on,
  • require,
  • deflect,
  • beat someone to it,
  • hope to,
  • premise,
  • look,
  • prognosticate,
  • usher in,
  • tolerate,
  • be destined,
  • sojourn,
  • expected,
  • count upon,
  • project,
  • reek,
  • anticipated,
  • prognosis,
  • previse,
  • parry,
  • brighten,
  • naive,
  • take into account,
  • stay,
  • keep eyes open,
  • address,
  • engage,
  • stave off,
  • guess,
  • beforehand,
  • assure,
  • hazard,
  • deter,
  • abort,
  • foretell,
  • dishearten,
  • dispose of,
  • have in view,
  • preclude,
  • prepare for,
  • depend on,
  • baulk,
  • Worries,
  • fend,
  • prohibit,
  • Presurmise,
  • precognition,
  • calculate,
  • along,
  • prolepsis,
  • reckon on,
  • rejoice,
  • omen,
  • Estop,
  • vigilance,
  • live,
  • lie ahead,
  • baffle,
  • cheer,
  • Forefeel,
  • look out for,
  • reckon,
  • bargain for,
  • hold back,
  • count chickens,
  • exclude,
  • preempt,
  • obviate,
  • prefigure,
  • hollo,
  • presage,
  • peace,
  • miscarry,
  • look to,
  • be early,
  • look ahead to,
  • scatter,
  • proscribe,
  • prediction,
  • see in the cards,
  • ahead,
  • nip in the bud,
  • continue,
  • Forejudge,
  • pour out,
  • turn aside,
  • proclaim,
  • announce,
  • endure,
  • suppose,
  • lodge,
  • cross the bridge,
  • annunciate,
  • delay,
  • Forewarn,
  • keep in view,
  • anticipation,
  • treasure,
  • curb,
  • assumption,
  • recoil from,
  • be watchful,
  • restrain,
  • visualize,
  • block,
  • Precurse,
  • jump the gun,
  • auspicate,
  • look for,
  • abide,
  • look forward to,
  • gain time,
  • have feeling,
  • trustful,
  • discern,
  • forearm,
  • phone,
  • sit tight,
  • gauge,
  • onward,
  • note,
  • go off half-cocked,
  • come,
  • think ahead,
  • guard,
  • have in mind,
  • entertain,
  • bargain on,
  • underestimate,
  • avert,
  • send for,
  • betoken,
  • have a feeling,
  • rest,
  • reading,
  • shrink from,
  • ward off,
  • call in,
  • allow for,
  • divination,
  • rule out,
  • convey,
  • take pleasure in,
  • come before,
  • bargain,
  • ring,
  • take precautions,
  • draw,
  • frustrate,
  • be prepared for,
  • near,
  • intercept,
  • see coming,
  • nullify,
  • prescience,
  • confront,
  • save,
  • counter,
  • Anticipating,
  • prevent,
  • mean,
  • early,
  • foresight,
  • chicken,
  • ban,
  • debar,
  • figure on,
  • preexist,
  • be ready for,
  • approach,
  • tarry,
  • computation,
  • hinder,
  • call,
  • rely on,
  • bide,
  • prepare,
  • scream,
  • bid,
  • fend off,
  • forethought,
  • call up,
  • check,
  • repel,
  • shout out,
  • wait,
  • carry,
  • overestimate,
  • retard,
  • be one step ahead of,
  • enjoin,
  • speculation,
  • keep time,
  • impede,
  • hypothesis,
  • be imminent,
  • name,
  • bar,
  • remove,
  • conceive of,
  • watch for,
  • obstruct,
  • augury,
  • foreclose,
  • ask,
  • be ready,
  • foil,
  • yell,
  • provide,
  • cry,
  • add,
  • bode,
  • unsuspecting,
  • seek,
  • backdate,
  • promise,
  • draw near,
  • holler,
  • watch,
  • stop,
  • makings,
  • take for granted,
  • savour,
  • misdate,
  • keep off,
  • keep from,
  • delight in,
  • at,
  • divine,
  • mitigate,
  • formerly,
  • appreciate,
  • appoint,
  • count on,
  • quail at,
  • pay out,
  • thwart,
  • herald,
  • forwards,
  • portend,
  • depend upon,
  • estimation,
  • credulous,
  • onwards,
  • pre-empt,
  • telephone,
  • prophecy,
  • threaten,
  • stave,
  • frontwards,
  • judge,
  • have a hunch.

Antonyms for Anticipate:

• v.

  • act in advance of
    forward, permit, allow, help.
  • expect; predict
    be amazed, be unready, doubt, be surprised.
  • Other antonyms:
    depart, forfeit, shun, remember, journey, distrust, migrate, despair of, question, abandon, recollect, avoid, resist, move, fear, reject, proceed, Forfend, recall.

Homophones for Anticipate:

• anticipated, amniotic cavity.