Meaning of future in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.

• Something that will happen in moments yet to come.

• Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to.

  Example: There is no future in dwelling on the past.

• The likely prospects for or fate of someone or something in time to come.

• (grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.

• An object that retrieves the value of a promise.

• A minor-league prospect.

adjective

• Having to do with or occurring in the future.

  Example: Future generations will either laugh or cry at our stupidity.

noun

• Short for futures contract.