Thesaurus: prospective

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1. n. Of or pertaining to a prospect; furnishing a prospect; perspective.
2. n. Looking forward in time; acting with foresight; -- opposed to retrospective.
3. n. Being within view or consideration, as a future event or contingency; relating to the future: expected; as, a prospective benefit.
4. n. The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.
5. n. A perspective glass.
6. adj. of or concerned with or related to the future
7. 1. Of or pertaining to a prospect; furnishing a prospect; perspective. [Obs.] Time's long and dark prospective glass. Milton. 2. Looking forward in time; acting with foresight; -- opposed to retrospective. The French king of Sweden are circumspect, industrious, and prospective, too, in this affair. Sir J. Child. 3. Being within view or consideration, as a future event or contingency; relating to the future: expected; as, a prospective benefit. Points on which the promises, at the time of ordination, had no prospective bearing. W. Jay. 1. The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect. Sir H. Wotton. 2. A perspective glass. [Obs.] Chaucer. Beau. & Fl.
8. j:100 a. of or concerned with or related to the future