All anticipatory synonyms
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A a adjective anticipatory
- preventive — Medicine/Medical. of or noting a drug, vaccine, etc., for preventing disease; prophylactic.
- preemptive — of or relating to preemption.
- defensive — You use defensive to describe things that are intended to protect someone or something.
- prophylactic — defending or protecting from disease or infection, as a drug.
- deterrent — A deterrent is something that prevents people from doing something by making them afraid of what will happen to them if they do it.
- protective — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- proactive — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
adverb anticipatory
- proximately — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
- on the dot — a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.
- in time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- in good time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- bright and early — very early in the morning
- before long — If you say that something will happen or happened before long, you mean that it will happen or happened soon.
- early — in or during the first part of a period of time, a course of action, a series of events, etc.: early in the year.
- in the bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
- in advance — to move or bring forward: The general advanced his troops to the new position.
adj anticipatory
- anticipant — operating in advance; expectant; anticipating
- anticipative — inclined to anticipate; of or full of anticipation
- awaiting — waiting
- hopeful — full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.
- anticipating — to realize beforehand; foretaste or foresee: to anticipate pleasure.