anticipative
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Mahalia was even more anticipative about her subsequent pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
From Time Magazine Archive
The President issued two proclamations—one anticipative, one celebrative.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Prince and Phadrig were keenly anticipative, and the latter not a little nervous.
From The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension by George Chetwynd Griffith
Apprehens′ive, pertaining to the laying hold of sensuous and mental impressions: intelligent, clever: having an apprehension or notion of: fearful: anticipative of something adverse.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
"That's what you've got to blow to call us in," exclaimed a small child, with anticipative enlivenment.
From Cape Cod Folks by Sarah P. McLean Greene
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