| Main Entry: | unborn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | future |
Synonyms: |
awaited, coming, expected, incipient, prospective |
| Main Entry: | future |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | to come; expected |
Synonyms: |
approaching, booked, budgeted, close at hand, coming, coming up, destined, down the line, down the pike, down the road, eventual, fated, final, forthcoming, from here in, from here on, from here to eternity, from now on in, imminent, impending, in the cards, in the course of time, in the offing, inevitable, just around the corner, later, likely, looked toward, near, next, planned, prospective, scheduled, subsequent, to be, ulterior, ultimate, unborn, unfolding, up |
Antonyms: |
past |
| Main Entry: | posterity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | future generations |
Synonyms: |
breed, brood, children, descendants, family, heirs, issue, lineage, next generation, offspring, progeniture, progeny, scions, seed, stock, succeeding generations, successors, unborn |
Antonyms: |
past |
| Main Entry: | future |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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| Concept: | Posterity. |
| Category: | 3. POWER IN OPERATION |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat; family, grandchildren, heirs; great-grandchild., child, son, daughter; butcha; bantling, scion; acrospire, plumule, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit, branch; off-shoot, off-set; ramification; descendant; heir, heiress; heir-apparent, heir-presumptive; chip off the old block; heredity; rising generation., straight descent, sonship, line, lineage, filiation, primogeniture.
-adjectives
filial; diphyletic.
-phrases
"the child is father of the man" [Wordsworth].
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