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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
The destruction caused by a pandemic helps to clear the way for a future resurgence.
It seems counterintuitive because education is the best way to protect ourselves from future crises.
The competition is expected to remain neck-and-neck for the foreseeable future.
Last fall, though, as the previous round of fires ravaged California, his phone began to ring, with private-equity investors and bankers all looking for his read on the state’s future.
Espina said Moreno would face future persecution if she were to return to her country.
The program has not made a final selection on which upgrades will actually be included in future versions of the F-35.
Disordered eating is also linked to higher rates of depression and anxiety, both in the present and in the future.
Ass-kicking, bad guy-killing Carter is just a future spinster.
Buzzfeed shows us a potentially terrifying glimpse of the future.
There is, fortunately, not too much telling of the future in Harry Potter.
And as she hesitated between obedience to one and duty toward the other, her life, her love and future was in the balance.
The poor must look to the brightness of a future world for the consolation that they were denied in this.
In future years the poor-rate (so-called) will include, in addition to these, all other rates levyable by the Corporation.
She embraced Otteline; and gave him her hand to kiss, with repeated expressions of future confidence in the husband of her friend.
In his childlike, impulsive fashion he had not thought of the future when he adopted Jean.
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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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