Definitions for future

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future fu·ture

Spelling: [fyoo-cher]

IPA: /ˈfyu tʃər/

Future is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in future (efrtuu).

Definitions for future

noun

1. time that is to be or come hereafter.
2. something that will exist or happen in time to come:
3. a condition, especially of success or failure, to come:
4. Grammar. the future tense. another future formation or construction. a form in the future, as He will come.
5. Usually, futures. speculative purchases or sales of commodities for future receipt or delivery.

adjective

1. that is to be or come hereafter:
2. pertaining to or connected with time to come:
3. Grammar. noting or pertaining to a tense or other verb formation or construction that refers to events or states in time to come.

Origin of future

1325-75; Middle English futur Anglo-French, Old French Latin fūtūrus about to be (future participle of esse to be)

Examples for future

There was much gladness between them, but the future had to be considered.

There is, fortunately, not too much telling of the future in Harry Potter.

He bathed in this imaginary future as in the waters of omnipotence.

But Robert was destined to fall in with him at a future day.

The present, so, was more than any possible future, how dire soever it might be.

The program has not made a final selection on which upgrades will actually be included in future versions of the F-35.

She was distrustful of the future, and apt to anticipate bad fortune.

Ass-kicking, bad guy-killing Carter is just a future spinster.

Buzzfeed shows us a potentially terrifying glimpse of the future.

Disordered eating is also linked to higher rates of depression and anxiety, both in the present and in the future.