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Future
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- 1 Having to do with or occurring in the future. not-comparable
"Future generations will either laugh or cry at our stupidity."
- 1 (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving wordnet
- 2 yet to be or coming wordnet
- 3 effective in or looking toward the future wordnet
- 4 a verb tense or other formation referring to events or states that have not yet happened wordnet
- 1 The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced. countable, uncountable
"This solitary attitude stems in part from a deep sense of fatalism and futility, a profound social effect of the genophage that caused krogan numbers to dwindle to a relative handful. Not only are they angry that the entire galaxy seems out to get them, the krogan are also generally pessimistic about their race's chances of survival. The surviving krogan see no point to building for the future; there will be no future. The krogan live with an attitude of "kill, pillage, and be selfish, for tomorrow we die.""
- 2 bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date wordnet
- 3 Something that will happen in moments yet to come. countable, uncountable
- 4 a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future wordnet
- 5 Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to. countable, uncountable
"There is no future in dwelling on the past."
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- 6 the time yet to come wordnet
- 7 The likely prospects for or fate of someone or something in time to come. countable, uncountable
"Again, it's unlikely they will return to traffic, but futures have been secured for four that will be heading to heritage railways [...]."
- 8 Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense. countable, uncountable
- 9 Alternative form of futures. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
- 10 An object that retrieves the value of a promise. countable, uncountable
- 11 A minor-league prospect. countable, uncountable
Etymology
From Middle English future, futur, from Old French futur, from Latin futūrus, irregular future active participle of sum (“I am”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, be”). Cognate with Old English bēo (“I become, I will be, I am”). More at be. Displaced native Old English tōweard, which took on a different meaning as toward, and Middle English afterhede (“future”, literally “afterhood”) in the given sense.
From Middle English future, futur, from Old French futur, from Latin futūrus, irregular future active participle of sum (“I am”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, be”). Cognate with Old English bēo (“I become, I will be, I am”). More at be. Displaced native Old English tōweard, which took on a different meaning as toward, and Middle English afterhede (“future”, literally “afterhood”) in the given sense.
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