future
pronunciation
How to pronounce future in British English:
UK [ˈfjuːtʃə(r)]
How to pronounce future in American English:
US [ˈfjuːtʃər]
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- Noun:
- the time yet to come
- a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future
- bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date
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- Adjective:
- yet to be or coming
- effective in or looking toward the future
- coming at a subsequent time or stage
- (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving
- a verb tense or other formation referring to events or states that have not yet happened
Word Origin
- future
- future: [14] Future comes via Old French future from Latin futūrus ‘going to be, about to be’, which was used as the future participle of esse ‘be’. It was a descendant of the Indo-European base *bheu- or *bhu-, which originally denoted ‘grow’, and also produced English be, the German present first and second person singular forms bin and bist, and the Latin perfect tense of esse (fuī ‘I was’, etc).=> be
- future (adj.)
- late 14c., "that is yet to be; pertaining to a time after the present," from Old French futur "future, to come" (13c.), from Latin futurus "going to be, yet to be," as a noun, "the future," irregular suppletive future participle of esse "to be," from PIE *bheue- (see be). In grammar, of tense, from 1520s.
- future (n.)
- "future events; time to come," late 14c., modeled on Latin futura, neuter plural of futurus (see future (adj.)).
Antonym
Example
- 1. The future could look brighter .
- 2. And the future never forgets .
- 3. The future seems unusually murky .
- 4. The future is very gray .
- 5. Would stretch deep into the future .