prospective :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

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adj. concerned with or related to the future; "prospective earnings"; "a prospective mother"; "the statute is solely prospective in operation"

adj. expected hopefully

adj. anticipated for the near future; "the prospective students"; "his prospective bride"

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adj. yet to be or coming; "some future historian will evaluate him"

due

adj. scheduled to arrive; "the train is due in 15 minutes"

adj. known beforehand

adj. expected or depended upon as a natural or logical outcome

adj. firmly believed; "the way things are supposed to be"

adj. of the relatively near future; "the approaching election"; "this coming Thursday"; "the forthcoming holidays"; "the upcoming spring fashions"

adj. yet to come; "coming generations"; "a future-day Gibbon of Macaulay"

adj. in or of the next month after the present; "scheduled for the 6th prox"

Antonyms (1)

adj. concerned with or related to the past; "retrospective self-justification"

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