HOW TO PRONOUNCE
prospective
/pɹəˈspɛktɪv/
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What does prospective mean?
adjective
- Likely or expected to happen or become.
- Anticipated in the near or far future.
- Of or relating to a prospect; furnishing a prospect.
More meanings (6)
adjective
- Looking forward in time; acting with foresight.
- Being a study that starts with the present situation and follows participants into the future
- Indicating grammatically an activity about to begin.
noun
- (informal) A prospective (potential) member, student, employee, date, partner, etc.
- (obsolete) The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.
- (obsolete) A perspective glass.
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IPA pronunciation
/pɹəˈspɛktɪv/
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These holidays serve the purpose of keeping the minds of the slaves occupied with prospective pleasure, within the limits of slavery.
I threatened to remove father from my calling list unless he shipped immediately sixty-five pairs of overalls for my prospective gardeners.
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The next day the landlady, in a fashionably-made black dress, was bustling about, proud of the prospective arrival of a handsome coffin.
M. de Bellegarde then presented his prospective brother-in-law to some twenty other persons of both sexes, selected apparently for their typically august character.
In medical colleges, among students and professors, these facts are freely admitted and discussed, but the prospective patient hears a different story.