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. Neil Atkinson:

   Oil prices appear to have bottomed out, prices are expected to grow throughout 2016 and into 2017, reflecting expectations that the market is going back into balance in 2017.

2. Steve Rodney:

   The four supernova images captured by Hubble appeared within a few days or weeks of each other and we found them after they had appeared, but we think the supernova may have appeared in a single image some 20 years ago elsewhere in the cluster field, and, even more excitingly, it is expected to reappear once more in the next one to five years.

3. Lorn Chenda:

   We never expected the prime minister would help us, this is the smallest problem for the prime minister to have to solve himself, and it was solved very quickly.

4. Rhoda Alexander:

   Education and business are expected to be the key markets for the 12.9-inch product.

5. Lee Jong-min:

   Although the mobile market in general will soon enter a period of a strong year-end seasonality, demand is expected to keep trending down year-on-year due to persistent uncertainties in the global macro environment.