Expected and Suspected

Expected

Expected adjective - Being in accordance with the prescribed, normal, or logical course of events.

Suspected and expected are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Suspected" instead a verb "Expected".

Suspected

Suspected adjective - Believed likely.

Expected and suspected are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Expected" instead a verb "Suspected".

Nearby Words: suspect, suspecting

Both words in one sentence

  • Wrestling / Mick Foley The best part is, of all the people they expected was screwing them, they never suspected Foley till he revealed himself.
  • Vox has a brain tumor (as was suspected), but (thanks to Beau) it gets caught in time to be surgically removed before it does any real harm, and Vox is expected to make a full recovery.
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