EXPECTANTとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ɪkˈspɛktənt/

形容詞

expectant (comparative more expectant, superlative most expectant)

1. Marked by expectation.

   the expectant hush before the performance

2. Pregnant.

   an expectant mother

   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 18:

     After seeing all the beautiful little wardrobe of the mother expectant, praising her delicate needlework, and inwardly regretting their own inability to add to it, they got a hearty lunch, intended for a dinner, and returned homewards,...

3. (medicine, dated) Awaiting the effects of nature, with little active treatment.
4. (medicine) A triage classification for a patient in a mass casualty event with injuries so severe they are unlikely to survive even with maximum medical care.

   do you agree the patient is expectant, or is there something we can do to save her?

派生語

名詞

expectant (plural expectants)

1. A person who expects or awaits something.

アナグラム

• exceptant

動詞

expectant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of expectō