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/prəspˈɛktɪv/ Listen

adjective

Prospective adj.

1.

Of or pertaining to a prospect; furnishing a prospect; perspective. (Obs.) "Time's long and dark prospective glass."

2.

Looking forward in time; acting with foresight; opposed to retrospective. "The French king of Sweden are circumspect, industrious, and prospective, too, in this affair."

3.

Being within view or consideration, as a future event or contingency; relating to the future: expected; as, a prospective benefit. "Points on which the promises, at the time of ordination, had no prospective bearing."

noun

Prospective n.

1.

The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.

2.

A perspective glass. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Prospective'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Prospective" Quotes from Famous Books

... a free gift of the tuition to prospective ministers; has one hundred tuition scholarships for other students of good character, habits, and standing; has some free rooms; makes loans at low rates; students have chances to earn money at tutoring, ...

— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden

... A prospective purchaser would mumble something in the ear of one of the clerks. The fat man with the megaphone would bawl out, "Hicky Boola, Miss Ryan!" And Miss Ryan would oblige. She made a hideous rattle and crash ...

— One Basket • Edna Ferber

... youth of prodigious parts and great cuteness. Indeed, on this subject my master's veracity could not be questioned; because when I first commenced Latin, I was often heard repeating the prescribed tasks in my sleep. Many of his relations had already, even upon the strength of my prospective priesthood, begun to claim relationship with our family, and before I was nineteen, I found myself godfather to a dozen godsons and as many god-daughters; every one of whom I had with unusual condescension taken under my patronage; ...

— The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim • William Carleton

... cuttings from these tubers, however, that the plant is mostly propagated. About three-fourths of the weight of the potato is water, and this may explain the injurious effect which excessive rainfall has on the crops. The disease which attacks the plant, and has been the cause of Irish famines, past and prospective, is a species of fungus, which first attacks and discolours the straws, and then spreads downwards to the tubers, increasing the quantity of water in them, reducing the quantity of starch, and converting ...

— Storyology - Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore • Benjamin Taylor

... is setting aside the old idea that it is well for all boys to pursue the same line of study, independent of tastes, and past and prospective circumstances in life; and another still more pernicious notion is sure soon to give way, that boys and young men, of whatever physical and brain power, are to be put through a definite course of study ...

— The Education of American Girls • Anna Callender Brackett

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