Synonyms: future
Definition: bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date
Similar words: commodity, trade good, good
Definition: articles of commerce
Synonyms: future, future tense
Definition: a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future
Similar words: tense
Definition: a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
Synonyms: hereafter, time to come, future, futurity
Definition: the time yet to come
Similar words: time
Definition: the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
Synonyms: succeeding, future, next
Definition: (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving
Usage: our next president
Similar words: incoming
Definition: arriving at a place or position
Usage: incoming class; incoming mail
Synonyms: future
Definition: yet to be or coming
Usage: some future historian will evaluate him
Similar words: forthcoming, coming, approaching, upcoming
Definition: of the relatively near future
Usage: the approaching election; this coming Thursday; the forthcoming holidays; the upcoming spring fashions
Similar words: future day
Definition: yet to come
Usage: a future-day Gibbon of Macaulay
Similar words: early
Definition: expected in the near future
Usage: look for an early end to the negotiations
Similar words: emerging, rising
Definition: coming to maturity
Usage: the rising generation
Similar words: in store
Definition: in readiness; awaiting
Usage: gave us a hint of the excitement that was in store for us
Definition: in or of the next month after the present
Usage: scheduled for the 6th prox
Synonyms: future
Definition: effective in or looking toward the future
Usage: he was preparing for future employment opportunities
Similar words: prospective
Definition: of or concerned with or related to the future
Usage: prospective earnings; a prospective mother; a prospective bride; the statute is solely prospective in operation