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| Main Entry: | expectation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, anticipation |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, assumption, assurance, calculation, chance, confidence, conjecture, design, expectancy, fear, forecast, hope, intention, likelihood, motive, notion, outlook, possibility, prediction, presumption, probability, promise, prospect, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspense, trust, view, looking forward |
| Main Entry: | assumption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | taking something for granted; something expected |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, assuming, belief, conjecture, expectation, fancy, guess, hunch, hypothesis, inference, postulate, premise, presumption, shot*, shot in the dark*, stab, supposition, surmise, suspicion, theory, accepting, posit, postulation, presupposition, sneaking suspicion, supposal, theorization |
| Antonyms: | doubt, unexpected |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | belief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | putting regard in as true |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, admission, assent, assumption, assurance, avowal, axiom, certainty, conclusion, confidence, conjecture, conviction, credence, credit, deduction, divination, expectation, faith, fancy, feeling, guess, hope, hypothesis, idea, impression, intuition, judgment, knowledge, mind, notion, opinion, persuasion, position, presumption, profession, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspicion, theorem, theory, thesis, thinking, trust, understanding, view, mindset, postulation, presupposition |
| Antonyms: | disbelief |
| Main Entry: | dependence/dependency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confidence, reliance |
| Synonyms: | assurance, belief, credence, expectation, faith, hope, responsibility, stability, stock, trust, interdependence, responsibleness, steadiness, trustiness, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | freedom, independence, strength |
| Main Entry: | destiny |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate |
| Synonyms: | afterlife, break*, certainty, circumstance, conclusion, condition, cup, design, doom, expectation, finality, fortune, future, happenstance, hereafter, horoscope, intent, intention, karma, kismet*, lot, luck, objective, ordinance, portion, predestination, prospect, serendipity, wheel of fortune*, Moirai, breaks, constellation, course of events, divine decree, foreordination, inevitability, predetermination, the stars, way the ball bounces, way the cookie crumbles, what is written, world to come |
| Antonyms: | choice, free will, volition |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | expectancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anticipation |
| Synonyms: | assumption, assurance, belief, calculation, confidence, conjecture, expectation, hope, likelihood, outlook, prediction, presentation, presentiment, presumption, probability, prospect, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspense, trust, view, looking forward, waiting |
| Main Entry: | fortune |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, lot in life |
| Synonyms: | accident, break*, certainty, chance, circumstances, contingency, destiny, doom, expectation, experience, fighting chance*, fluke*, hazard, history, karma*, kismet*, life, luck, lucky break*, portion, providence, star, success, wheel of fortune*, Moirai, fifty-fifty*, fortuity, fortunateness, good break, lucked into, lucked out, luckiness, lucky hit, roll of the dice, run of luck, streak of luck, way the ball bounces, way the cookie crumbles |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | future |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | time to come |
| Synonyms: | afterward, destiny, eternity, expectation, fate, hereafter, infinity, millennium, outlook, posterity, prospect, aftertime, by and by, futurity, life to come, morrow, offing, subsequent time, to be, tomorrow, world to come |
| Antonyms: | past |
| Main Entry: | hope |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | longing; dream |
| Synonyms: | Utopia, achievement, ambition, anticipation, aspiration, assumption, belief, bright side, buoyancy, castles in air, concern, confidence, daydream, dependence, desire, endurance, expectancy, expectation, faith, fancy, fool's paradise, fortune, gain, goal, greedy glutton, hopefulness, light at end of tunnel, optimism, pipe dream*, promise, promised land*, prospect, reliance, reverie, reward, rosiness, sanguineness, security, stock, thing with feathers, wish |
| Antonyms: | despair, disbelief, discouragement, hopelessness, pessimism |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hunch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling, idea |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, apprehension, auguration, augury, boding, clue, expectation, feeling in one's bones, foreboding, forecast, foreknowledge, forewarning, forewisdom, funny feeling*, glimmer, hint, impression, inkling, instinct, intuition, misgiving, notion, omination, portent, preapprehension, precognition, preconceived notion, premonition, prenotation, prenotice, presage, presagement, prescience, presentiment, qualm, suspicion, thought |
| Antonyms: | proof, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | optimism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of having positive beliefs |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, assurance, brightness, buoyancy, calmness, certainty, cheer, cheerfulness, confidence, easiness, elation, encouragement, enthusiasm, exhilaration, expectation, happiness, rose-colored glasses*, trust, good cheer, hopefulness, idealism, looking on bright side, positivism, sanguineness, sureness |
| Antonyms: | doubt, gloom, pessimism, hopelessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | outlook |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | probable future |
| Synonyms: | chance, expectation, forecast, law of averages*, likelihood, opening, opportunity, possibility, probability, prospect, risk, appearances, normal course, prospects |
| Antonyms: | past |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | preparation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development, readiness |
| Synonyms: | alertness, anticipation, arrangement, background, base, basis, construction, dry run*, education, establishment, evolution, expectation, fitting, foresight, formation, foundation, gestation, groundwork, manufacture, measure, plan, precaution, preparedness, preparing, provision, qualification, rehearsal, rundown, safeguard, study, training, tryout, workout, build-up, getting ready, homework, incubation, lead time, making ready, putting in order, readying, schoolwork, substructure |
| Antonyms: | unreadiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | probability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | likelihood of something happening |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, chance, chances, conceivability, contingency, credibility, expectation, feasibility, hazard, liability, likeliness, odds, outside chance, plausibility, possibility, practicability, prayer, presumption, promise, prospect, reasonableness, shot, snowball's chance, toss-up |
| Antonyms: | improbability, unlikelihood |
| Main Entry: | prognosis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forecast |
| Synonyms: | cast, diagnosis, expectation, guess, prediction, projection, prophecy, speculation, surmise, foretelling, prevision, prognostication |
| Notes: | a diagnosis is the process of identifying or determining the nature of a diseased condition or the conclusion reached; a prognosis is a prediction of the probable course of a disease or likely outcome of a problem |
| Main Entry: | prospect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outlook for future |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, calculation, chance, contemplation, expectancy, expectation, forecast, future, hope, likelihood, odds, opening, plan, possibility, presumption, probability, promise, proposal, thought, in the cards, irons in the fire |
| Main Entry: | purpose |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intention, meaning, aim |
| Synonyms: | ambition, animus, aspiration, big idea, bourn, calculation, design, desire, destination, determination, direction, dream, drift, end, expectation, function, goal, hope, idea, intendment, intent, mecca, mission, object, objective, plan, point, premeditation, principle, project, proposal, proposition, prospect, reason, resolve, scheme, scope, target, ulterior motive, view, whatfor, where one's headed, whole idea, why and wherefore, whyfor, will, wish |
| Main Entry: | suspense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anticipation |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, apprehension, confusion, dilemma, doubt, eagerness, expectancy, expectation, hesitancy, hesitation, impatience, indecision, insecurity, tension, uncertainty, wavering, chiller, cliff-hanger, cloak and dagger, grabber, indecisiveness, irresolution, page-turner, perplexity, potboiler, thriller |
| Antonyms: | knowledge |
| Main Entry: | thought |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea, concept |
| Synonyms: | aim, anxiety, appreciation, aspiration, assessment, assumption, belief, brainstorm*, compassion, conception, concern, conclusion, conjecture, conviction, design, dream, drift, estimation, expectation, fancy, feeling, guess, hope, hypothesis, image, inference, intention, intuition, judgment, kindness, knowledge, notion, object, opinion, plan, premise, prospect, purpose, regard, reverie, solicitude, supposition, sympathy, theory, thinking, understanding, view, worry, attentiveness, brainchild, caring |
| Antonyms: | concrete, thing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in something as true, trustworthy |
| Synonyms: | assurance, certainty, confidence, conviction, credence, credit, expectation, faith, gospel truth*, hope, reliance, stock, store, certitude, dependence, entrustment, positiveness, sureness |
| Antonyms: | disbelief, distrust, mistrust |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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