- looking toward the future
- expected; likely; future
Origin of prospective
Late Latin prospectivus from prospectus: see prospect
The guide gave the group of prospective students a tour of the college campus.
- An example of someone prospective is a potential new client; a prospective client.
- An example of someone prospective is a student looking at colleges; a prospective student.
Prospective is defined as likely or expected.
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prospective
adjective
- Likely or expected to happen.
- Likely to become or be: prospective clients.
Related Forms:
- pro·spec′tive·ly
adverb
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Adjective
(not comparable)
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prospective - Legal Definition
adj
Effective in the future.
Newly enacted laws and constitutional decisions are almost always applied
prospectively.
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Sentence Examples
- Three prospective buyers had looked at the house and at least one seemed interested.
- Tower (ed.), Springfield, Present and Prospective (ibid., 1905); M.
- If she openly admired him in front of her prospective employer, what would she do when she was alone with him?
- A prospective prince consort of England.
- If, owing to proximity to a town or otherwise, the prospective value were too high, the council might hire such land for the purpose of letting it.
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WORDS NEAR prospective IN THE DICTIONARY
- prospective
- prospected
- prospecting
- prospectings