future
Word Statistics
Standard vocabulary
Used frequently in everyday conversation
Moderate complexity
Analysis:
- • Common vocabulary word
- • Simple pronunciation
noun
1. The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
2. Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
3. Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to.
"There is no future in dwelling on the past."
4. The likely prospects for or fate of someone or something in time to come.
5. (grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
6. An object that retrieves the value of a promise.
7. A minor-league prospect.
Synonyms
adjective
1. Having to do with or occurring in the future.
"Future generations will either laugh or cry at our stupidity."
Synonyms
noun
1. Short for futures contract.
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