Prospective

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]
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              Time's long and dark prospective glass. --Milton.
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     2. Looking forward in time; acting with foresight; -- opposed
        to {retrospective}.
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              The French king of Sweden are circumspect,
              industrious, and prospective, too, in this affair.
                                                    --Sir J.
                                                    Child.
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     3. Being within view or consideration, as a future event or
        contingency; relating to the future: expected; as, a
        prospective benefit.
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              Points on which the promises, at the time of
              ordination, had no prospective bearing. --W. Jay.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Prospective \Pro*spec"tive\, n.
     1. The scene before or around, in time or in space; view;
        prospect. --Sir H. Wotton.
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     2. A perspective glass. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Beau. & Fl.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  prospective
       adj 1: concerned with or related to the future; "prospective
              earnings"; "a prospective mother"; "the statute is
              solely prospective in operation" [ant: {retrospective}]
       2: anticipated for the near future; "the prospective students";
          "his prospective bride" [syn: {prospective(a)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PROSPECTIVE. That which is applicable to the future; it is used in 
  opposition to retrospective. To be just, a law ought always to be 
  prospective. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 116.