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| Main Entry: | prospective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | anticipated, potential |
| Synonyms: | approaching, coming, considered, destined, eventual, expected, forthcoming, future, imminent, impending, intended, likely, planned, possible, promised, proposed, about to be, awaited, hoped-for, looked-for, soon-to-be, to be, to come |
| Notes: | perspective is a way of regarding situations or topics or a mental view or the state of one's ideas; prospective means concerned with or related to the future |
| Antonyms: | agreed, concurred |
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| Main Entry: | coming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | approaching, promising |
| Synonyms: | anticipated, aspiring, at hand, certain, close, deserving, due, en route, eventual, expected, fated, foreseen, forthcoming, future, immediate, imminent, impending, instant, marked, near, nearing, next, nigh, oncoming, ordained, preparing, prospective, pursuing, subsequent, up-and-coming, about to happen, advancing, almost on one, converging, docking, drawing near, gaining upon, getting near, in prospect, in store, in the offing, in the wind, in view, predestined, progressing, running after, to be |
| Main Entry: | eventual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | future, concluding |
| Synonyms: | conditional, consequent, contingent, dependent, ending, ensuing, final, hindmost, indirect, inevitable, last, later, latter, overall, possible, prospective, secondary, terminal, ulterior, ultimate, vicarious, closing, down the pike, down the road, endmost, in the cards, resulting, succeeding |
| Antonyms: | past |
| Main Entry: | forthcoming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expected, imminent |
| Synonyms: | accessible, anticipated, approaching, at hand, available, coming, destined, fated, future, impending, inescapable, inevitable, nearing, obtainable, on tap*, oncoming, open, pending, prospective, ready, upcoming, awaited, in evidence, in preparation, in prospect, in store, in the cards, in the wind, predestined, resulting |
| Antonyms: | bygone, distant, gone, past |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | future |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | to come; expected |
| Synonyms: | approaching, booked, coming, destined, eventual, fated, final, forthcoming, imminent, impending, inevitable, later, likely, near, next, planned, prospective, subsequent, ulterior, ultimate, unborn, up, budgeted, close at hand, coming up, down the line, down the pike, down the road, from here in, from here on, from here to eternity, from now on in, in the cards, in the course of time, in the offing, just around the corner, looked toward, scheduled, to be, unfolding |
| Antonyms: | past |
| Main Entry: | would-be |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aspiring |
| Synonyms: | ambitious, budding, eager, enterprising, hopeful, keen, potential, promising, prospective, striving, wishful, wannabe |
| Main Entry: | planned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | projected |
| Synonyms: | outlined, prepared, prospective, in the making, on the docket, programmed |
| Main Entry: | proposed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | projected |
| Synonyms: | advanced, advised, considered, contingent, determined, expected, intended, moved, planned, pressed, prospective, recommended, suggested, urged, volunteered, arranged, contemplated, designed, proffered, purposed, scheduled, schemed, submitted |
| Main Entry: | unborn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | future |
| Synonyms: | coming, expected, incipient, prospective, awaited |
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| Main Entry: | expectation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
abeyant, absolute, agape, allowable, allowed, astonished at nothing, authorized, becoming, befitting, chartered, claiming, common, condign, constitutional, correct, creditable, curious, decorous, deserved, deserving, due, due to, enfranchised, entitled to, equitable, expectant, expected, expecting, fit, fitting, foreseen, gaping, having a right to, impending, imprescriptible, inalienable, indefeasible, inviolable, just, just the thing, lawful, legal, legalized, legitimate, licit, lochetic, meet, merited, meriting, ordained, ordinary, peremptory, prescribed, prescriptive, presumptive, privileged, proleptic, proper, prospective, quite the thing, ready, richly deserved, right, right as a trivet, sanctioned, seemly, spectabundal, speratory, square, unalienable, unamazed, unchallenged, unexceptionable, unimpeachable, up to the mark, warranted, worthy of
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| Main Entry: | prophecy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
Cassandran, augurial, augurous, auspicial, auspicious, big with the fate of, extispicious, farseeing, farsighted, fatidic, fatidical, foreseeing, ill, monitory, ominous, oracular, portentous, predicting, predictive, pregnant, premonitory, prescient, prescious, prophetic, prospective, provident, sagacious, sibylline, significant of, sponsional, vaticinal, weather
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