Adjective : an anticipative action; an anticipative look.    From Dictionary.com. 

Everyone was out of harness, fidgety and anticipative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dirge]

How does the reader show that ll. 7-12 are merely anticipative?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference

BOYD: Well, number one, we have to have an anticipative security program at every airport.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2003] Reference

Ignoring the conglomeration of anticipative vileness, Ehomba reached slowly over his back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Into the Thinking Kingdoms]

Its posture is firm, steady, self-poised, conscious of rectitude, and anticipative of veritable and valuable results.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864] Reference

But, to this, Bishop Jebb's anticipative answer is ready.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference

Our very passions, when most agitated, are most anticipative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pelham — Complete] Reference

There was an eager, anticipative move on the part of the negroes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Love Story of Abner Stone] Reference

He hung motionless, a speck in the clear zenith, uncannily anticipative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship] Reference

However, Sir William Brandon appeared very little anticipative of danger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference

"Which way did the fellow go?" said the watchman, anticipative of half-a-crown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Disowned — Complete] Reference

My mother shook her head in anticipative horror, and raised her finger reprovingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devereux — Complete] Reference

The Prince and Phadrig were keenly anticipative, and the latter not a little nervous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension] Reference

To recount only a few of his unprecedented exploits on that day of anticipative bliss.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper] Reference

It's a new form of CRM using a mix of planned, anticipative and reactive micro initiatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [PSFK] Reference

Emily Gaskell, almost involuntarily, glanced up at me with a mischievous, anticipative wink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cape Cod Folks] Reference

The Doctor, looking complacently expansive, cheerily anticipative, welcomed them on the doorstep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 8, 1893] Reference

Dinner, "concluded Brentwick with anticipative relish," will be served in precisely thirty minutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Bag] Reference

Why not arrange that, out of this sum, your anticipative charge on the Casino property be paid at once?.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Novel — Complete] Reference

"That's what you've got to blow to call us in," exclaimed a small child, with anticipative enlivenment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cape Cod Folks] Reference

States in the Far West seems to whisper an anticipative answer, and wake the pulse of hope and of expectancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPES FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM.] Reference

The whole of this second scene commences, and is anticipative of, the tone and character of the play at large.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher] Reference

The father's love devises an answer which is a marvellous compound of considerate love and anticipative faith.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

"It must have been that which he came to see me about last night," he said, with a sort of anticipative remorse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Minister's Charge] Reference

The cry of the angel, announcing her fall, as Mr. Elliot remarks, seems to be anticipative, and not retrospective.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse] Reference

Of all the converts, none had been so eager for the emigration, so fondly anticipative of the promised delights, as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Verner's Pride] Reference

He went to war not in anticipative self-defense, as Gibson put it, but for purposes of preventing the acquiring of weapons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories - Google News] Reference

'Dearest lady,' said a deep voice, with a sort of oily, anticipative gentleness in it, 'can you forgive me my little stratagem?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Margaret A Portrait] Reference

All declarations, made in this new announcement, that refer to future plans, events or performance are anticipative declarations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

She had traveled with him so long and so doughtily that he had never been able to form any anticipative picture of himself without her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference

She marked the eagerly anticipative solicitude of the boyish groom, contrasting it now and then with Ormsby's less obtrusive attentions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grafters] Reference

"Transition from Decorated to Perpendicular" (anticipative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See] Reference

But, to this, Bishop Jebb’s anticipative answer is ready.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference

"lead-bound," was one of those anticipative notes obscurely struck in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Appreciations, with an Essay on Style] Reference