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prospective 音标拼音: [prəsp'ɛktɪv] a. 有希望的,预期的,将来的 有希望的,预期的,将来的 prospective adj 1: of or concerned with or related to the future; " prospective earnings"; " a prospective mother"; " a prospective bride"; " the statute is solely prospective in operation" [ ant: { retrospective}] Prospective \ Pro* spec" tive\, n. 1. The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect. -- Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A perspective glass. [ Obs.] -- Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster]
Prospective \ Pro* spec" tive\, a. [ L. prospectivus: cf. F. prospectif. See { Prospect}, n.] 1. Of or pertaining to a prospect; furnishing a prospect; perspective. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Time' s long and dark prospective glass. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Looking forward in time; acting with foresight; -- opposed to { retrospective}. [ 1913 Webster] The French king of Sweden are circumspect, industrious, and prospective, too, in this affair. -- Sir J. Child. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Being within view or consideration, as a future event or contingency; relating to the future: expected; as, a prospective benefit. [ 1913 Webster] Points on which the promises, at the time of ordination, had no prospective bearing. -- W. Jay. [ 1913 Webster] 45 Moby Thesaurus words for " prospective": anticipated, approaching, awaited, coming, desired, destinal, destined, determined, due, emergent, eventual, expected, extrapolated, fatal, fated, fatidic, foreseen, forthcoming, future, futuristic, hereafter, hoped- for, imminent, impending, in prospect, in view, incipient, later, long- expected, nearing, on the horizon, overdue, pending, planned, plotted, potential, predicted, presumed, probable, projected, promised, prophesied, to come, to- be, ultimate
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