Future definition
Future is an adjective meaning "yet to be or coming." It has 7 meanings, as an adjective and a noun, listed below with example sentences.
- Part of speech
- adjective, noun
- Syllables
- 2
- Letters
- 6
- How common
- Everyday word
Future as an adjective
yet to be or coming
"some future historian will evaluate him"
effective in or looking toward the future
"he was preparing for future employment opportunities"
(of elected officers) elected but not yet serving
Same sense: next, succeeding
a verb tense or other formation referring to events or states that have not yet happened
"future auxiliary"
Future as a noun
the time yet to come
Same sense: time to come, hereafter, futurity
a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future
Same sense: future tense
bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date
Synonyms and antonyms
- next definition
- succeeding
- time to come
- hereafter
- futurity
- future tense
Opposites: past, present.
How to say future
Future has 2 syllables and rhymes with suture. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.
Words that rhyme with future
- suture
FUTURE in word games
- Scrabble
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Anagrams
- 0
Is FUTURE a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check FUTURE in the word checker, or unscramble FUTURE to see the shorter words in its letters.
Definitions and examples from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Browse more words in the dictionary.