prospective

Use Prospective in a sentence

adjective

of or in the future: prospective earnings.

potential, likely, or expected: a prospective partner.

Origin:
1580–90; < Late Latin prōspectīvus. See prospectus, -ive

Related forms

pro·spec·tive·ly, adverb

pro·spec·tive·ness, noun

Can be confused: perspective, prospective.

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prospective (prəˈspɛktɪv)

—*adj*
1.	looking towards the future
2.	(prenominal) anticipated or likely

pro'spectively

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

prospective

1580s, from obsolete Fr. prospectif, from M.L. prospectivus, from L. prospect-, pp. stem of prospicere (see prospect (n.)). In 17c. also as a noun, "spy glass, telescope."

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Example sentences

Twitter is going to sell a bill of goods to a prospective buyer, convince this

big company of its potential value.

But they also need to continually renew and refresh their pool of prospective

adjuncts.

Follow-up studies now in the planning stage are expected to use prospective as

well as retrospective data.

Prospective veterinarians must have good manual dexterity.

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Matching Quote

"At a tender age, I commandeered half a quire of foolscap from my father's desk and sat down to write a book. ...I had observed on printed fly leaves the words "By the author of, etc." ...So under the title of my prospective work I wrote: By the author of "Les Miserables," "The Woman in White," "Dombey and Son," "Tom Brown's Schooldays" and "Our Life in the Highlands," the last-named being an opus of good Queen Victoria. I had not read all these works but they existed on our bookshelves, and I hoped to produce something worthy of comparison."

-Rheta Childe Dorr