Synonyms for expected
ex·pect·ed

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1. expectedadjective

   Antonyms:
   unexpected, unlikely, surprising

2. expectedadjective

   The expected storm never arrived.

   Antonyms:
   surprising, unexpected, unlikely

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1. expectedadjective

   considered likely or probable to happen or arrive

   "prepared for the expected attack"

   Antonyms:
   unhoped, unannounced, out of the blue(p), upset(a), unprovided for(p), unthought-of, unforeseen, unexpected, unpredicted, unhoped-for, unlooked-for, unanticipated, unthought, unheralded

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1. List of paraphrases for "expected":

   anticipated, planned, hoped, projected, waited, foreseen, desired, awaited, scheduled, intended, envisaged, wait, predicted, should, forecast, hoped-for, expectations, waiting, expects, predictable, forecasted, provided, looked, due, foreseeable, prescribed, likely

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1. Tariq Zahir:

   The draw in crude inventories was bigger-than-expected but was so the build in gasoline, resulting in a mixed picture on the fundamental front.

2. Guenter Boehm:

   All that was not nice but we were so busy surviving we had no time to feel hate, no one expected that we would see 75 years without war and in fact that's a gift.

3. Deborah Birx:

   The medical community made -- interpreted the Chinese data as: This was serious, but smaller than anyone expected because I think probably we were missing a significant amount of data, now that what we see happened to Italy and see what happened to Spain.

4. Van Dokkum:

   For the age we thought - 10 billion years, we saw the exact number of stars that we expected, so, it turns out our models for this particular age are correct. Now, the next step is to look at younger galaxies and see if they have indeed stronger pulsations which we would predict.

5. Robert Kadlec:

   Right now, we're waiting to hear from Gilead what is their expected delivery availability of the drug as we go from June to July, we're kind of not in negotiations, but in discussions with Gilead as they project what the availability of their product will be.