Synonyms for future
ˈfyu tʃərfu·ture

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. future

   Synonyms:
   forthcoming, coming, advenient

   Antonyms:
   gone, bygone, past

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. future, hereafter, futurity, time to comenoun

   the time yet to come

   Synonyms:
   time to come, future tense, afterlife, hereafter, futurity

   Antonyms:
   past, past times, yesteryear, retrospective, ago, gone, prehistoric, ult, quondam(a), medieval, previous(a), other(a), present(a), instant, former(a), departed, recent, agone, late(a), immediate, foregone, knightly, onetime(a), olden, bypast, ancient, bygone, latter-day, ultimo, then(a), one-time(a), sometime(a), historic, outgoing, prehistorical, early(a), existing, erstwhile(a), old, chivalric, inst, last(a), historical

2. future, future tensenoun

   a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future

   Synonyms:
   time to come, future tense, hereafter, futurity

   Antonyms:
   yesteryear, past times, past, foregone, recent, chivalric, former(a), medieval, bypast, erstwhile(a), instant, ago, present(a), historic, olden, retrospective, last(a), knightly, late(a), ultimo, latter-day, inst, early(a), prehistoric, outgoing, onetime(a), other(a), immediate, gone, departed, bygone, agone, one-time(a), historical, quondam(a), prehistorical, previous(a), ult, existing, then(a), sometime(a), old, ancient

3. futureadjective

   bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date

   Synonyms:
   time to come, future tense, hereafter, futurity

   Antonyms:
   past, past times, yesteryear, prehistorical, late(a), historic, sometime(a), agone, former(a), historical, chivalric, medieval, olden, one-time(a), foregone, departed, old, bypast, gone, ancient, knightly, ultimo, quondam(a), present(a), inst, other(a), instant, ult, latter-day, erstwhile(a), then(a), previous(a), ago, recent, existing, immediate, prehistoric, early(a), retrospective, last(a), bygone, onetime(a), outgoing

4. futureadjective

   yet to be or coming

   "some future historian will evaluate him"

   Synonyms:
   future(a), succeeding(a), next

   Antonyms:
   past times, past, yesteryear, late(a), prehistorical, foregone, medieval, retrospective, previous(a), onetime(a), one-time(a), sometime(a), former(a), other(a), immediate, latter-day, bygone, recent, departed, existing, present(a), gone, early(a), instant, ultimo, quondam(a), agone, knightly, chivalric, historic, prehistoric, ult, bypast, ago, historical, erstwhile(a), old, last(a), then(a), inst, ancient, olden, outgoing

5. futureadjective

   effective in or looking toward the future

   "he was preparing for future employment opportunities"

   Synonyms:
   future(a), succeeding(a), next

   Antonyms:
   yesteryear, past times, past, sometime(a), ancient, existing, outgoing, retrospective, onetime(a), inst, other(a), prehistoric, foregone, medieval, bygone, chivalric, ultimo, gone, historic, knightly, early(a), old, olden, one-time(a), then(a), bypast, former(a), quondam(a), ago, recent, instant, departed, late(a), last(a), immediate, previous(a), historical, agone, latter-day, erstwhile(a), ult, prehistorical, present(a)

6. future(a), next, succeeding(a)adjective

   (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving

   "our next president"

   Antonyms:
   past, past times, yesteryear, sometime(a), olden, late(a), other(a), medieval, ancient, present(a), old, early(a), bypast, previous(a), ultimo, prehistorical, gone, then(a), historical, agone, former(a), onetime(a), latter-day, instant, quondam(a), inst, outgoing, chivalric, ago, bygone, prehistoric, knightly, existing, departed, foregone, erstwhile(a), recent, retrospective, one-time(a), last(a), immediate, ult, historic

7. futureadjective

   a verb tense or other formation referring to events or states that have not yet happened

   "future auxiliary"

   Synonyms:
   future(a), succeeding(a), next

   Antonyms:
   past times, past, yesteryear, historical, sometime(a), bypast, previous(a), prehistorical, medieval, former(a), onetime(a), late(a), outgoing, inst, knightly, erstwhile(a), one-time(a), early(a), old, gone, latter-day, other(a), quondam(a), chivalric, immediate, present(a), ultimo, bygone, last(a), foregone, prehistoric, departed, then(a), existing, recent, ult, retrospective, agone, olden, instant, historic, ancient, ago

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. futurenoun

   Synonyms:
   futurity, time to come

2. futureadjective

   Synonyms:
   coming, to come, yet to be, that will be

3. futureadjective

   Synonyms:
   (Gram.) denoting futurity

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "future":

   forthcoming, next, coming, futures, prospective, tomorrow, upcoming, subsequent, ahead, 'avenir, futur, further, futuro, avenir, later, futura, forward, come, soon-to-be, zukunft, expectant, futuristic

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1. List of known nicknames for "Future":

   Nayvadius Wilburn, Nayvadius Cash, Nayvadius D. Wilburn

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1. Prime Minister Scott Morrison:

   This Royal Commission is looking at the practical things that must be done to keep Australians safe and safer for longer in hot dry summers - conditions in which Australians will live into the future.

2. Robert Lee:

   He'll be missed in the position but hopefully set a standard that future appointments to the position will follow.

3. Chuck Schumer:

   We have a population that is not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to, the only way we're going to have a great future in America is if we welcome and embrace immigrants, the dreamers and all of them, because our ultimate goal is to help the dreamers, but get a path to citizenship for all 11 million or however many undocumented there are here. And we will be pursuing that in the next Senate.

4. Doreen Bogdan-Martin:

   The report has wide ramifications both for the safety and security of women and girls online, but also for the health of the online environment and by extension the future growth of online services.

5. Dean Koontz:

   Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.