Meaning of FUTURE
| Pronunciation: | | 'fyoochur
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- [n] bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date
- [n] a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future
- [n] the time yet to come
- [adj] yet to be or coming; "some future historian will evaluate him"
- [adj] effective in or looking toward the future; "he was preparing for future employment opportunities"
- [adj] (grammar) a verb tense or other formation referring to events or states that have not yet happened; "future auxiliary"
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| | Synonyms: | | approaching, coming(a), early, emerging, forthcoming, future day, future tense, futurity, hereafter, in store(p), prospective(a), prox, proximo, rising, time to come, upcoming |
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| | Antonyms: | | past, past, past times, present(a), yesteryear, yore | | |
| | See Also: | | by-and-by, commodity, goods, incoming, millennium, offing, oil future, petroleum future, prospective, soybean future, tense, time, tomorrow, trade goods, wheat future | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Fu"ture\ (?; 135), a. [F. futur, L. futurus, used as
fut. p. of esse to be, but from the same root as E. be. See
{Be}, v. i.]
That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time
after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the
present.
{Future tense} (Gram.), the tense or modification of a verb
which expresses a future act or event.
\Fu"ture\, n. [Cf. F. futur. See {Future}, a.]
1. Time to come; time subsequent to the present (as, the
future shall be as the present); collectively, events that
are to happen in time to come. ``Lay the future open.''
--Shak.
2. The possibilities of the future; -- used especially of
prospective success or advancement; as, he had great
future before him.
3. (Gram.) A future tense.
{To deal in futures}, to speculate on the future values of
merchandise or stocks. [Brokers' cant]
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| | Definition: | | Dreaming that you are in the future means your hopes or your fears of how things will turn out depending on the scenario. |
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| | Related Terms: | | about to be, affianced, aftertime, afterward, already in sight, aorist, appointed lot, approaching, astral influences, astrology, at hand, betrothed, book of fate, brewing, bride-to-be, by-and-by, close, close at hand, coming, constellation, cup, desired, destinal, destination, destined, destiny, determined, dies funestis, doom, durative, emergent, end, eventual, expected, extrapolated, fatal, fatality, fate, fated, fatidic, fiance, fiancee, following, foredoom, forthcoming, fortune, Friday, Friday the thirteenth, future perfect, futuristic, gathering, going to happen, hereafter, historical present, hoped-for, ides of March, immediate, imminent, impendent, impending, imperfect, in danger imminent, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, inevitability, instant, intended, kismet, later, looming, lot, lowering, lurking, menacing, moira, near, near at hand, nearing, offing, on the horizon, overhanging, past, past perfect, perfect, planets, planned, plotted, pluperfect, point tense, portion, predicted, preparing, present, present perfect, preterit, probable, progressive tense, projected, prophesied, prospective, stars, subsequent, tense, that will be, threatening, time to come, to come, to-be, tomorrow, ultimate, unborn, unlucky day, upcoming, waiting, weird, wheel of fortune, will of Heaven |
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