Prospective

Quick meaning: Prospective is an adjective meaning Likely or expected to happen or become.

Meaning

Likely or expected to happen or become.

More Meanings

1. Anticipated in the near or far future.
2. Of or relating to a prospect; furnishing a prospect.
3. Looking forward in time; acting with foresight.
4. (medicine, of research) Being a study that starts with the present situation and follows participants into the future
5. (grammar) Indicating grammatically an activity about to begin.
6. (obsolete) The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.
7. (obsolete) A perspective glass.

Example Sentences

Would you like to show the prospective around?

the whole Scene of affairs was changed from Spain to France there now lay the prospective

And in times long and dark Proſpective Glaſs / Fore-ſaw what future dayes ſhould bring to paſs,

Prospective students are those who have already applied to the university, but have yet to be admitted.

Word Forms

• prospectives

Synonyms for prospective

Depending on context, synonyms include potential, expected, future, likely.

Antonyms for prospective

Common opposites include retrospective.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include likely, expected, potential, future, probable, possible.

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