prospective

Meanings

Plural: prospectives

Adjective

• of or concerned with or related to the future
  • "prospective earnings"
  • "a prospective mother"
  • "a prospective bride"
  • "the statute is solely prospective in operation"

Adj

• Likely or expected to happen or become.
• Anticipated in the near or far future.
• Of or relating to a prospect; furnishing a prospect.
• Looking forward in time; acting with foresight.
• Being a study that starts with the present situation and follows participants into the future
• Indicating grammatically an activity about to begin.

Noun

• The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.
• A perspective glass.
• A prospective (potential) member, student, employee, date, partner, etc.

Antonyms

retrospective

Related Words

inchoative

Anagrams of prospective