prospective

Academic Word List, sublist 8.

About 9.60 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Likely or expected to happen or become.

   Prospective students are those who have already applied to the university, but have yet to be admitted.

2. adjective Anticipated in the near or far future.
3. adjective Of or relating to a prospect; furnishing a prospect.
4. adjective Looking forward in time; acting with foresight.
5. adjective Being a study that starts with the present situation and follows participants into the future
6. adjective Indicating grammatically an activity about to begin.

   What some other languages convey with prospective aspect, English conveys with expressions like going to drive the car home.

7. noun The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.
8. noun A perspective glass.

Similar words

likely expected potential future probable possible contingent putative intended predictable

Often followed by

study studies teachers buyers customers randomized employer buyer payment employers

Word family

prospect prospectively prospects