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

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

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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How to use expected in a sentence?

1. President Petro Poroshenko:

   Ukraine is aware of these restrictions and the expected damage to the Ukrainian economy. But we are ready to pay this price for our freedom and our European choice.

2. Christin Ownby:

   And then we only expected a couplehundred people to see it, we never imagined it would go viral! We cant stop laughing about this!

3. Taylor Hall:

   Your mind wanders the last couple of days and wonder what it may be like out here (on ice after winning) and it's better than I could have expected, my career has taken a lot of different turns, but to end up here with this group of guys and to do this is amazing.

4. James Franco:

   With Tommy Wiseau cult-classic movie, people expected us to make a broad comedy where we make fun of Tommy Wiseau, but the more real we played it, the funnier and heartfelt it was -- that's the tone we want for this one as well.

5. Chief Executive Doug Oberhelman:

   We originally set the $ 50 billion sales and revenues estimate in January, and our expectations have n’t changed much since then. However, currency impacts from a stronger U.S. dollar are causing sales in many countries to translate into fewer dollars than we initially expected.