future
Meanings
Plural: futures
Noun
- the time yet to come
- a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future
- bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date
- The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
- Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
- Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to.
- The likely prospects for or fate of someone or something in time to come.
- Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
- Alternative form of futures.
- An object that retrieves the value of a promise.
- A minor-league prospect.
Adjective
- yet to be or coming
- "some future historian will evaluate him"
- a verb tense or other formation referring to events or states that have not yet happened
- "future auxiliary"
Adjective Satellite
- effective in or looking toward the future
- "he was preparing for future employment opportunities"
- (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving
Adj
- Having to do with or occurring in the future.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English future, futur, from Old French futur, from Latin futūrus, irregular future active participle of sum (“I am”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, be”). Cognate with Old English bēo (“I become, I will be, I am”). More at be. Displaced native Old English tōweard, which took on a different meaning as toward, and Middle English afterhede (“future”, literally “afterhood”) in the given sense.
Synonyms
coming, future, future tense, futurity, hereafter, next, succeeding, the future, time to come, to-come, toward, unborn
Scrabble Score: 9
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