prospective
/prospective/
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Definition
Adjective: 1. Relating to or concerned with the future: Describing something that is expected, anticipated, or likely to happen in the future. 2. Potential or likely to become: Used to describe a person who is a candidate or is being considered for a particular role, status, or relationship in the future.
Usage
The adjective "prospective" is used to modify nouns, indicating that the noun refers to something in the future or to a potential future state. It is often used in formal, business, legal, and academic contexts.
Examples
- The company is interviewing prospective employees this week.
- Before buying the house, they wanted to meet their prospective neighbors.
- The university sent information packets to all prospective students.
- The report analyzed the prospective benefits of the new policy.
Advanced Usage
- Solely/entirely/purely prospective: A legal or formal term indicating that a law, rule, or agreement applies only to future actions and not to past ones.
- The court's ruling was purely prospective, so it did not affect previous cases.
Variants and Related Words
- Prospectively (adverb): In a way that relates to the future.
- The law will be applied prospectively from January 1st.
- Prospect (noun): The possibility or likelihood of a future event occurring; a potential candidate or client.
- There is a prospect of rain tomorrow.
- He is a top prospect for the managerial position.
Synonyms
- Potential: Having or showing the capacity to develop into something in the future.
- Future: Yet to come or relating to a time after the present.
- Expected: Regarded as likely to happen.
- Likely: Such as well might happen or be true.
Antonyms
- Retrospective: Looking back on or dealing with past events.
- Current: Belonging to the present time.
- Actual: Existing in fact; real.
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