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future
[ fyoo-cher ]
noun
- time that will be or come after the present:
In the future, the fines for these infractions may be much greater.
- something that will exist or happen in time to come:
The future is rooted in the past.
- a condition, especially of success or failure, to come:
An oracle had predicted the mighty hero's tragic future.
- Grammar. future tense ( def ).
- Usually futures. Stock Exchange. speculative purchases or sales of commodities to be received or delivered later on.
adjective
- coming or happening after the present time:
All these decisions are uncertain, as they depend on future events.
On some future day when you are least expecting it, I will return.
- relating to or connected with time to come:
I’m afraid my future plans are already made, and they don’t include farming.
- Grammar. designating a tense or other verb construction that refers to events or states happening after the present time.
future
/ ˈfjuːtʃə /
noun
- the time yet to come
- undetermined events that will occur in that time
- the condition of a person or thing at a later date
the future of the school is undecided
- likelihood of later improvement or advancement
he has a future as a singer
- grammar
- a tense of verbs used when the action or event described is to occur after the time of utterance
- a verb in this tense
- in futurefrom now on; henceforth
adjective
- that is yet to come or be
- of or expressing time yet to come
- prenominal destined to become
a future president
- grammar in or denoting the future as a tense of verbs
Derived Forms
- ˈfutureless, adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of future1
Word History and Origins
Origin of future1
Idioms and Phrases
see in the near future .Example Sentences
They were designed to prove to future explorers that Captain Cook had been there first and to introduce native inhabitants to the then British monarch - King George III - whose portrait appears on the other side.
"Truth is, you cannot change the past, but you can have people try to avoid it happening again in the future," Simon said.
"Aside from potentially predicting future psychosis onset, biomarkers could also help stratify patients into clinically meaningful subgroups and suggest new options for treatment or intervention."
Regenerative medicine holds the extraordinary promise that future patients in need of new cells, tissues or organs will no longer have to rely on donors.
As for where it might go in the future, he says live streaming video – with the tech describing buildings and movements around them - might be an area they move into.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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