anti- +

1. Coming or acting in advance: "The clouds are anticipant of a storm."
2. Expectant; anticipating: "The team was anticipant of victory.
3. Someone who anticipates.

1. To expect an advance thought, discussion, or treatment to.
2. To look forward to (an obligation) before a due date.
3. To foresee and to deal with in advance; to forestall.
4. To use or expend in advance of actual possession.
5. To act before (another) often so as to check or counteract something.

1. To realize beforehand; to foretaste or to foresee: to anticipate pleasure.
2. To expect; to look forward to; to be sure of: "She anticipated a favorable decision."
3. To perform (an action) before another has had time to act.
4. To answer (a question), obey (a command), or satisfy (a request) before it is made: "He anticipated each of my orders."
5. To nullify, to prevent, or to forestall by taking countermeasures in advance: "They were anticipating a military attack."
6. To consider or mention before the proper time: "The speaker was anticipating more difficult questions."
7. To be before (another) in doing, thinking, achieving, etc.: "Many modern inventions were anticipated by Leonardo da Vinci."
8. To expend (funds) before they are legitimately available for use to discharge (an obligation) before it is due.
9. To think, speak, act, or feel an emotional response in advance.

1. The act of anticipating.
2. An expectation.
3. Foreknowledge, intuition, and presentiment.
4. The use or assignment of funds; especially, from a trust fund, before they are legitimately available for use.
5. Music Introduction on a weak beat of one note of a new chord before the previous chord is resolved.

1. Experienced or done in the expectation of a future event.
2. Forecasting; of the nature of anticipation.

An older term for anterior.

1. Food that is served at the beginning of an Italian meal or as a snack.
2. A course of appetizers consisting of an assortment of foods, as olives, anchovies, sliced sausage, peppers, and artichoke hearts.
3. From early 17th century; Italian, "before food".