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Contemplated vs Anticipated - What's the difference?

contemplated | anticipated |

As verbs the difference between contemplated and anticipated

is that contemplated is (contemplate) while anticipated is (anticipate).

As an adjective anticipated is

expected to arrive; scheduled.

contemplated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (contemplate)

  • contemplate

    English

    Verb

    (contemplat)
  • To look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider.
  • * Milton
  • To love, at least contemplate and admire, / What I see excellent.
  • * Byron
  • We thus dilate / Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate .
  • To consider as a possibility.
  • * A. Hamilton
  • There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions.
  • * Kent
  • If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * contemplative * contemplation * contemplatively

    References

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    anticipated

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • expected to arrive; scheduled
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (anticipate)