Anticipatory

What do we mean by anticipatory?

Characterized by anticipation.

Adj. the state of being deeply impatient and/or excited about something one expects to occur in the near or semi-near future. Used commonly with an event whose outcome is currently ambiguous. Essentially an adjective form of the word anticipate. Urban Dictionary

Your desire to see your family at the annual gathering is offset by your anticipatory angst of being judged by your family though your own inner critic judges you mercilessly. Urban Dictionary

Popping wood when thinking about an impending occasion where you're guaranteed to get ass. It can range anywhere from a semi to a full on rager, often depending on how hot the girl is and how close you are to go time. Urban Dictionary

The attitude one portrays before the consumption if alcohol which includes a crazy, drunk, inebriated behavior. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to anticipatory:
anticipatory, anticipator, anticipators, participatory, anticipatorily.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word anticipatory:
dissimilation, repudiation, socialization, bail, assimilation, grief, foresight, warrants, lag, nausea, predictive, governance, breach, anxiety, triggering, scheduling, obstruction, vomiting, anticipation, plea, exclusion, probable, adapt, democracy, ethics, damages, thoughts, petition, responses, loved, behavior, declaration, capabilities, behaviour, arrest, merely, occurs, characteristics, thinking, emotional, future, systems, fear, rejected, activity, processes, actual, technologies, response, cells, court, condition, learn, refers, occur, cause, supreme, signal, decision, criminal, search, describes, analysis, method, planning, advance, application, learning, process, theory.

Words that rhyme with anticipatory:
story, allegory, aleatory, inventory, glory, desultory, mandatory, quarry, derogatory, category, repository, territory, laboratory, statutory, dilatory, signatory, dory, storey, purgatory, hoary, conciliatory, lorry, ambulatory, oratory, exculpatory, dormitory, recore, obligatory, mori, transitory, lavatory, respiratory, tory, depilatory, inflammatory, regulatory, gory, predatory, auditory, tori, kauri, repertory, laudatory, observatory, preparatory, lory, defamatory, revelatory, explanatory, depository, morey, celebratory, cory, torii, pylori, montessori, discriminatory, accusatory, compensatory, exploratory, memento mori, ori, understory, circulatory, promissory, aurae, interrogatory, migratory, incantatory, participatory, corrie, corey, reformatory, cacciatore, lori, boree, tempore, rory, confirmatory, contributory, congratulatory, horae, saury, aurei, torrey, oscillatory, retaliatory, ory, laurie, declaratory, maury, gorey, inhibitory, lorrie, tauri, jory, life story, excretory, articulatory, outlawry.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective anticipatory:
guidance, anxiety, grief, socialization, responses, breach, response, nausea, fear, action, behavior, planning, reactions, mourning, repudiation, grieving, set, reaction, control, adjustments, activity, resoluteness, defense, pleasure, movements, bail, effects, coarticulation, nature, excitement, function, character, measures, care, defence, mechanisms, images, stress, fears, strategies, image, change, approach, avoidance, phase, smile, adjustment, learning, thinking, coping, errors, actions, processes, preparation, democracy, mechanism, vomiting, management, stage, loss, assignment, schema, delight, reflection, imagery, tension, fashion, dread, ideas, arousal, joy, emesis, feelings, socialisation, schemata, reference, behaviour, touch, adaptation, frustration, strategy, consciousness.

Words that sound like anticipatory:
anticipatory, anticipator, anticipators, anticipative, anticipated, anticipating, participatory, unanticipated, understory, understorey.