be expecting Definition

expect
verb expected, expecting

1. To think of something as likely to happen or come.

Thesaurus: anticipate, await, wait for, hope for, look for, look forward to, envisage.
2. colloq
To suppose.
Example: I expect you're tired
Thesaurus: assume, presume, suppose, think, trust, count on, bank on.
3. To require (certain behaviour) of someone; to require (someone) to do something

Thesaurus: require, insist upon, demand.

Derivative: expectable
adj

Derivative: expectably
adverb

Derivative: expected
adj

Conforming to convention or habit.
Thesaurus: conventional, familiar, normal, habitual, predictable.

(of a person or event) waited for, due.
Thesaurus: anticipated, looked for, longed for, hoped for, planned for, prepared for, counted on.

Idiom: be expecting

colloq
To be pregnant.
Thesaurus: pregnant, with child, in the family way.

Etymology: 16c: from Latin exspectare to look out for.

Phrasal Verb: expect something from or of someone

To require it of them; to regard it as normal or reasonable.