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expectable en · ADJ

Etymology

From expect + -able.

Meanings

1. Able to be expected. ▸ Able to be expected or anticipated; not unusual.
   • Expectable losses are calculated into the final selling price.
2. Able to be expected. ▸ Able to be expected or considered due or required (of someone), reasonable to expect (someone to do, have, etc).
   • Such issues finally turn on two counts; namely, what is most opposite to the human scene, and what is most properly worth, or—may we say— “expectable” of God. 2008, Leonard Swidler, Paul Mojzes, The Uniqueness of Jesus: A Dialogue with Paul F. Knitter, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 64:
   • The jury could and did find that appellant's decision not to move was not a decision expectable of a reasonably prudent man to whom any backing vehicle means grave danger. c. 1964, Donald R. Mergenhagen v. George R. Mergenhagen, case before the Supreme Court of New York, appellate division, fourth department, in State of New York Supreme Court Appellate Division Fourth Department, page 265
   • An argument can be made that the Marquesan view of certain states as expectable of 'persons' follows from these being equally examples of a common type of process. 1987, Geoffrey M. White, John Kirkpatrick, Person, Self, and Experience: Exploring Pacific Ethnopsychologies, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 91:
   • And that is the tragedy of the establishment of the diagnosis of PTSD. The presence of troubling war-related memories and associated negative reactions typically has much more to do with what is normal and expectable of almost anyone who has survived war ... 2004, Raymond M. Scurfield, A Vietnam Trilogy, Vol. I: Veterans and Post Traumatic Stress, 1968, 1989, 2000, Algora Publishing, →ISBN, page 206:

Forms

Deriveds

unexpectable · expectably · inexpectable

Translations (4)

hu várható (able to be expected) · ru ожидаемый (able to be expected) · fi odotettava (able to be expected) · cs očekávatelný (able to be expected)