FUTURE
ADJECTIVES
► FORE-HANDED provided for the future → 1905 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► FUTURABLE that may happen in the future → 1655 obs.
► FUTURAL pert. to the future → 1906
► FUTURITIAL pertaining to future times or events; relating to what is to come → 1846 obs.
► ON THE SHELF put on one side for future use → 1825 UK sl.
► SHELVED put on one side for future use → 1873 UK sl.
► SUCCEEDING coming, to come, future → 1676 obs.
► TO-COMING future → 1556 obs.
ADVERBS
► FUTURELY in future, at a future time → 1611 obs.
NOUNS
► AFTER-HOURS future times; posterity → 1800
► AFTERTIME later or future times; also, a time following an incident or act → 1557
► BOOK OF FATE the future as being predetermined
► FRONT TRAIL the future → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► FUTURALITY futurity; the future of a person → 1666 obs.
► FUTURES future events → c1374 obs.
► FUTURITIES future events → 1651
► FUTURITION 1. the fact or quality of being future → 1666
2. a future event or existence → 1668
► FUTURITY 1. future time; the future → a1616
2. the fact or quality of being future → 1637
► JUVEMBER an undetermined, but not too distant date → 1940s US sl.
► LONG DAY a time far distant in the past or future ..1889 Amer. dial.
► NEVER-NEVER COUNTRY the future life; heaven → 1888 Aust. sl.
► ODD-COME-SHORTLY some day or other in the near future → 1738
► ONSIGHT the act or faculty of looking onward or forward into the future → 1849-51
► PRESCIENCE foreknowledge, the knowledge of future events → c1395
► PREVISION foresight; a foreseeing; insight into the future → a1425
► REMAINING STATE a future state → 1815 Sc.
► SHORT DAY a day in the near future → 1740 US
► STRAW IN THE WIND a small but significant indicator of the (future) course of events
► SWEET BY-AND-BY the future → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► TO-BE the future
► UMPTEENHUNDRED a point in the yet-to-be-determined indefinite future → 1988 sl.
NOUNS – PERSON
► CRYONAUT a person who is cryogenically preserved with a view to being revived in the distant future → 1968
► CRYSTAL GAZER a person who predicts what will happen in the future → 1889
► DEAD-END KID a youth with no future, usually a male → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► FUTURIST one who has regard to or studies the future; a believer in human progress → 1846
► MOD one who discards the conventional past and looks in the future → 1968 Aust. sl.
► SOOTHSAYER a person who claims or pretends to be bale to foretell future events; a predictor, a prognosticator → 1381
PHRASES
► IN THE OFFING in the projected future; likely to happen
VERBS
► FARSEE to foretell the future → 1944 Amer. dial.
► FUTURIZE to form the future tense; to express the idea of futurity → 1859
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