EXPECTATIONS Synonyms

• freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities

• a feeling of trust (in someone or something)

• a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable

• a trustful relationship

• a secret that is confided or entrusted to another

• a specific instance of feeling hopeful

• United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (1903-2003)

• the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled

• grounds for feeling hopeful about the future

• someone (or something) on which expectations are centered

• one of the three Christian virtues

• expect and wish

• be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes

• intend with some possibility of fulfilment

• the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)

• a statement made about the future

• a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations

• the projection of an image from a film onto a screen

• a planned undertaking

• any structure that branches out from a central support

• any solid convex shape that juts out from something

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else

• the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality

• the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction

• the act of projecting out from something

• the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting

• something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary)

• certainty based on past experience

• the trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others

• a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service

• complete confidence in a person or plan etc

• a trustful relationship

• have confidence or faith in

• allow without fear

• be confident about something

• expect and wish

• confer a trust upon

• (chiefly archaic) extend credit to

• realize beforehand

• picture to oneself; imagine possible

• act in advance of; deal with ahead of time

• the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values

• a statistic describing the location of a distribution

• (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities

• an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual

• approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value

• lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered

• lacking exceptional quality or ability

• around the middle of a scale of evaluation

• relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution

• relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values)

• amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain

• achieve or reach on average

• compute the average of

• a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations

• belief about (or mental picture of) the future

• the act of looking out

• the possibility of future success

• belief about (or mental picture of) the future

• someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.)

• the visual percept of a region

• a prediction of the course of a disease

• search for something desirable

• explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals

• the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values

• the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values