prospective

UK /pɹəˈspɛktɪv/ US /pɹəˈspɛktɪv/
adj 5noun 2

Definitions

adj

1

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

Anticipated in the near or far future.

A short distance above I-ch’ang is the prospective site of a hydroelectric dam that has vast promise for the industrialization of central China.

3

Of or relating to a prospect; furnishing a prospect.

And in times long and dark Proſpective Glaſs / Fore-ſaw what future dayes ſhould bring to paſs,

4

Looking forward in time; acting with foresight.

1668-1690, Josiah Child, A new discourse of trade The French king, and the king of Sweden are […] circumspect, industrious, and prospective, too, in this affair.

5

Being a study that starts with the present situation and follows participants into the future

noun

1

The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.

the whole Scene of affairs was changed from Spain to France there now lay the prospective

2

A perspective glass.

[T]hey [two pavillions] were trimmed on the inside with rich armour and military furniture, hanged up as upon the walls; and behind the tents there were represented, in prospective, the tops of divers other tents, as if it had been a camp.

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