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• adj.

  • all (adjective)

  • future.

  • coming (adjective)

  • close,
  • en route,
  • nigh,
  • aspiring,
  • deserving,
  • Preparing,
  • marked,
  • up-and-coming,
  • foreseen,
  • ordained,
  • instant,
  • predestined,
  • almost on one,
  • immediate,
  • oncoming,
  • advancing,
  • pursuing,
  • Nearing,
  • docking,
  • Progressing,
  • due,
  • at hand,
  • about to happen,
  • converging,
  • certain.

  • engaged (adjective)

  • committed,
  • bound,
  • steady,
  • affianced,
  • pinned,
  • contracted,
  • ringed,
  • Plighted,
  • pledged,
  • matched,
  • hooked.

  • ensuing (adjective)

  • ensuing,
  • impending,
  • Looming,
  • eventual,
  • destined.

  • future (adjective)

  • from here on,
  • up,
  • soon-to-be,
  • down the pike,
  • final,
  • from now on in,
  • down the line,
  • from here in,
  • tomorrow’s,
  • near,
  • just around the corner,
  • close at hand,
  • from here to eternity.

  • intended (adjective)

  • prearranged,
  • aforethought.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)

  • in view,
  • coming,
  • running after,
  • postmortem,
  • getting near,
  • in store,
  • in prospect,
  • forthcoming,
  • asked for,
  • going steady,
  • upcoming,
  • in evidence,
  • engaged,
  • spoken for,
  • hoped for,
  • given one’s word,
  • looked for,
  • to come,
  • to be,
  • drawing near,
  • looked-for,
  • intended,
  • gaining upon,
  • in the offing,
  • in preparation,
  • prospective,
  • unrealized,
  • in the wind,
  • within realm of possibility,
  • prepatent.

  • postmortem (adjective)

  • Post-obit,
  • post-obituary,
  • postobituary,
  • postmundane.

  • potential (adjective)

  • more prepatent,
  • un-realized,
  • pre patent,
  • more unrealized,
  • un realized,
  • imaginable,
  • most unrealized,
  • un-developed,
  • within realm possibility,
  • implied,
  • pre-patent,
  • most prepatent.

  • prospective (adjective)

  • lookedfor,
  • most soon-to-be,
  • more hoped-for,
  • more looked for,
  • about be,
  • more lookedfor,
  • hopedfor,
  • more hopedfor,
  • most looked for,
  • soon to be,
  • most hopedfor,
  • hoped-for,
  • more soon-to-be,
  • most soon to be,
  • more looked-for,
  • most hoped-for,
  • most hoped for,
  • more soon to be,
  • most looked-for,
  • most lookedfor,
  • more hoped for.

• n.

  •
  • fated,
  • on the schedule,
  • in the planning stage,
  • coming up,
  • expected,
  • inevitable,
  • in the plans for the future,
  • looked toward,
  • in the natural course of events,
  • projected,
  • budgeted,
  • not ruled out,
  • booked,
  • down the road,
  • scheduled,
  • unfolding,
  • imminent,
  • active,
  • in the cards,
  • ultimate,
  • planned,
  • in the course of time,
  • likely,
  • anticipated.
  •
  • bond,
  • arbitrage,
  • blue-chip,
  • annuity,
  • debenture,
  • capital,
  • precede,
  • capital-intensive,
  • derivative,
  • contrarian,
  • capital gains tax.
  •
  • aspect,
  • the conditional,
  • copula,
  • DO,
  • the first person,
  • outlook,
  • conjugation,
  • auxiliary,
  • auxiliary verb,
  • the active.
  •
  • bachelor party,
  • bridal party,
  • betrothal,
  • bridal,
  • bridal shower,
  • betrothed,
  • best man,
  • banns,
  • bride,
  • bachelorette party.
  •
  • morrow,
  • the shape of things to come,
  • the future.
  •
  • a ray of light/comfort,
  • pious hope,
  • light at the end of the tunnel.
  •
  • history will show/record/judge etc.,
  • the best/worst is yet to come,
  • what the future holds,
  • tomorrow is another day.

  • approaching (noun)

  • approaching.

  • chance (noun)

  • break,
  • doom,
  • good luck,
  • stroke of luck,
  • peradventure,
  • cast,
  • occurrence,
  • fortune,
  • even chance,
  • lot,
  • gamble,
  • risk,
  • toss up,
  • hap,
  • destination,
  • way the cookie crumbles,
  • haphazard,
  • heads or tails,
  • fortuity,
  • peril,
  • tossup,
  • happenchance,
  • kismet,
  • fluke,
  • outcome,
  • providence,
  • contingency,
  • accident,
  • luck out,
  • lucky break,
  • way cookie crumbles,
  • Wheel of fortune,
  • casualty,
  • bad luck,
  • misfortune,
  • coincidence,
  • lottery,
  • adventure,
  • advantage,
  • turn of the cards,
  • hazard,
  • toss-up,
  • throw of the dice,
  • happening.

  • different time (noun)

  • days gone by.

  • emerging (noun)

  • emerging.

  • eternity (noun)

  • everlastingness,
  • perpetuity,
  • age,
  • immortality,
  • world without end,
  • ages,
  • kingdom come,
  • blue moon,
  • endlessness.

  • fate (noun)

  • consequence,
  • stars,
  • ending,
  • nemesis,
  • handwriting on the wall,
  • issue,
  • end,
  • effect,
  • termination,
  • upshot.

  • fiancee (noun)

  • affianceds,
  • husband to bes,
  • wife to bes,
  • husband-to-bes.

  • future (noun)

  • eventuality,
  • later,
  • prox,
  • infinity,
  • early,
  • subsequent,
  • millennium,
  • proximo,
  • incoming,
  • future day,
  • life to come,
  • ulterior,
  • afterward,
  • tomorrow,
  • succeeding,
  • next,
  • posterity,
  • subsequent time,
  • rising,
  • futurity,
  • time to come,
  • future tense.

  • hap (noun)

  • haza.

  • hereafter (noun)

  • next worlds,
  • after world,
  • otherworlds,
  • after-worlds,
  • under world,
  • aftertimes,
  • afterworlds,
  • under-worlds,
  • under worlds,
  • to-bes,
  • after worlds,
  • after-time,
  • to bes,
  • be-yond,
  • offings,
  • be yond,
  • the beyonds,
  • future existences,
  • under-world,
  • after-world.

  • Other relevant words: (noun)

  • horoscope,
  • chronology,
  • way the ball bounces,
  • imperishabilities,
  • the beyond,
  • engaged person,
  • lastingness,
  • aftertime,
  • course of events,
  • week,
  • other world,
  • era,
  • fiance,
  • endless time,
  • old man,
  • affianced person,
  • predestination,
  • serendipity,
  • Chronologies,
  • fate,
  • foreordination,
  • dog’s age,
  • Fore-ordination,
  • aeon,
  • predetermination,
  • infinitudes,
  • constellations,
  • timelessness,
  • to-be,
  • the stars,
  • month,
  • future existence,
  • prospect,
  • many a moon,
  • hours,
  • inevitabilities,
  • inevitability,
  • imperishability,
  • wife-to-be,
  • wild blue yonder,
  • hour,
  • underworld,
  • inescapableness,
  • years,
  • Tobe,
  • destiny,
  • divine decree,
  • otherworld,
  • hereafter,
  • intents,
  • handwriting on wall,
  • offing,
  • year,
  • weeks,
  • after life,
  • time,
  • months,
  • Sempiternity,
  • world to come,
  • by and by,
  • divine will,
  • aeons,
  • beyonds,
  • tobes,
  • after time,
  • time without end,
  • infiniteness,
  • Next world,
  • afterworld,
  • forever and a day,
  • eternity,
  • what is written,
  • chance,
  • infinitude,
  • husband-to-be,
  • constellation,
  • prospective spouse.

  • prospect (noun)

  • irons in fire.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)

  • anticipation.

  • predestinate (verb)

  • kismeting,
  • karmaing,
  • divined will,
  • wheeling of fortune,
  • handwritinging the wall,
  • wheels fortune,
  • Consequencing,
  • terminationing,
  • pre ordained,
  • outcomed,
  • kismeted,
  • endinging,
  • horoscoping,
  • pre-determines,
  • upshoting,
  • terminationed,
  • pre determining,
  • endinged,
  • moiraied,
  • handwritinged the wall,
  • futured,
  • destinying,
  • handwritings on wall,
  • fore-ordains,
  • handwritinged on wall,
  • pre-determine,
  • providencing,
  • pre-ordained,
  • out-coming,
  • divining will,
  • fore-ordain,
  • pre-ordains,
  • nemesisses,
  • moiraiing,
  • inescapablenessing,
  • pre ordain,
  • consequenced,
  • pre-determining,
  • pre-ordaining,
  • inescapablenessed,
  • karmaed,
  • predestinationed,
  • starses,
  • upshoted,
  • predestinationing,
  • destinied,
  • pre determine,
  • handwritinging on the wall,
  • handwritings on the wall,
  • nemesises,
  • providenced,
  • handwritinging wall,
  • nemesised,
  • horoscoped,
  • wheeling fortune,
  • pre-ordain,
  • handwritings the wall,
  • pre ordains,
  • starsing,
  • pre determines,
  • wheeled of fortune,
  • fore-ordaining,
  • out coming,
  • divines will,
  • futuring,
  • fore ordaining,
  • fore ordained,
  • handwritinged wall,
  • nemesising,
  • handwritings wall,
  • destinationed,
  • pre ordaining,
  • handwritinging on wall,
  • wheels of fortune,
  • fore ordains,
  • handwritinged on the wall,
  • wheeled fortune,
  • starsed,
  • fore ordain,
  • destinationing.

  • predestine (verb)

  • pre destined,
  • pre-destined,
  • pre destines,
  • pre-destine,
  • pre-destining,
  • pre destine,
  • pre destining,
  • pre-destines.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • finite,
  • Post-mortem,
  • imperfect,
  • intransitive,
  • continuous,
  • likelihood,
  • feasibility,
  • impersonal,
  • sing,
  • ergative,
  • potentiality,
  • causative,
  • optimism,
  • sporting chance,
  • life expectancy,
  • posthumous,
  • pipe dream,
  • non-finite,
  • stative,
  • transitive,
  • imperative.
  •
  • perfect,
  • probability,
  • expectation,
  • potential,
  • tendency,
  • singular,
  • reflexive,
  • futuristic,
  • modal.
  •
  • odds,
  • possibility,
  • threat,
  • prayer.
  •
  • progressive,
  • weak,
  • promise.
  •
  • vision.
  •
  • room.
  •
  • in the future.

  • embryonic

  • unborn.

  • Other relevant words:

  • hope,
  • predestine,
  • predestinate.

  • predestinate

  • fortuned,
  • Dooming,
  • Lotted,
  • lucked,
  • foreordain,
  • fortuning,
  • Cupped,
  • lucking,
  • Lotting,
  • Circumstanced,
  • outcoming,
  • cupping,
  • circumstancing.

How to use «Future» in context?

Paraphrases for Future:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    upcoming.
  • Proper noun, singular
    upcoming.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    upcoming.

• Independent

  • Adjective, comparative
    better.
  • Adjective
    anticipated, aspiring, eventual, expectant, foreseeable, imminent, impending, subsequent, successive, tomorrow, would-be, future-proof, up-coming, AFTER-ACQUIRED, future-ready, future-enterable.
  • Proper noun, singular
    subsequent, tomorrow, Persons, Programs, Tracks, estimates, initiatives, leads, issues, trails, points, models, items, predictions, FUTUR, projections, programmes.
  • Noun, plural
    years, Universities, Visions, exceptions, players, careers, principles, outcomes, choices, comments, deadlines, trainees.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    data, destiny, horizon, tomorrow, FUTUR.
  • Verb, past tense
    determined, figured.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    ensuing, getting, going, heading, looking, succeeding, Doing, Expecting, Looming.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    remains, Does, continues, depends.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    further, futuristic, soon-to-be, future-oriented.
  • Proper noun, singular
    further.
  • Noun, plural
    Lives, Possibilities, fortunes.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    upcoming.

Hypernym for Future:

• n.

  • artifact
    oil future, petroleum future, wheat future, soybean future.
  • time
    tomorrow, by-and-by, manana, kingdom come, offing.

Hyponym for Future:

• n.

  • artifact
    commodity, trade good, good.
  • time
    time.

as in coming

of a time after the present

we must preserve our national parks in all their glory so that future generations can experience the majesty of nature

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