futuristic

futuristic (ˌfjuːtʃəˈrɪstɪk)

—*adj*
1.	denoting or relating to design, technology, etc, that is thought likely to be current or fashionable at some future time; ultramodern
2.	of or relating to futurism

futur'istically

—*adv*

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futuristic

1915, avant garde, from futurism. Meaning pertaining to the future is from 1958, from future + -istic.

Example sentences

White lights shone from a futuristic steel fixture above.

Along the way, the concept has gone from futuristic novelty to often-tacky

tourist traps.

Then, with the next wave of technology, the vision becomes decidedly futuristic.

Read on for a look at some of these futuristic weapons being tested today.

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Matching Quote

"While enclosed shopping malls suspended space, time, and weather, Disneyland went one step further and suspended reality. Any geographic, cultural, or mythical location, whether supplied by fictional texts (Tom Sawyer's Island), historical locations (New Orleans Square), or futuristic projections (Space Mountain), could be reconfigured as a setting for entertainment. Shopping malls easily adapted this appropriation of "place" in the creation of a specialized theme environment. In Scottsdale, the Borgata, an open-air shopping mall set down in the flat Arizona desert, reinterprets the medieval Tuscan hill town of San Gimignano with piazza and scaled-down towers (made of real Italian bricks)."

-Margaret Crawford