3.2.7 Expect

Use this domain for words referring to thinking about the future.

Louw Nida Codes: 
30C To Think Concerning Future Contingencies
  • What words refer to how a person thinks about the future?
    expect, feel satisfied, feel dissatisfied, expect with certainty, expect uncertainly, be looking at, anticipate, await, suspense
  • What words refer to something that may happen in the future?
    expectation, prospect, possibility
  • What words refer to an expectation happening?
    come true, come about, be fulfilled, materialize
  • What words refer to an expectation not happening?
    not come true, fail to materialize

    • 3.2.7.1 Hope

    Use this domain for words related to hoping that something will happen--to want something good to happen in the future.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    25D Hope, Look Forward To
  • What words refer to hoping that something good will happen in the future?
    hope, look forward to, anticipate, eagerly await, bide, desire, dream, be optimistic, wish for, fulfill hope,
  • What words refer to something good that may happen in the future?
    hope (n), wish (n)

    • 3.2.7.2 Hopeless

    Use this domain for words related to feeling hopeless--to thinking that nothing good will happen in the future.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    25D Hope, Look Forward To
  • What words refer to feeling hopeless?
    hopeless, lose hope, cynical, cynicism, despair, fatalistic, fatalism, pessimistic, pessimism

    • 3.2.7.3 Predict

    Use this domain for words referring to predicting the future--saying what you think will happen.

    Related domains: 
    4.9.4.6 Prophecy
  • What words refer to predicting what you think will happen in the future?
    claim, forecast, foretell, predict, prognosticate, prophesy,