prospective /pɹəˈspɛktɪv/adjective 6noun 3forms 1 adjective6 •Likely or expected to happen or become.Prospective students are those who have already applied to the university, but have yet to be admitted. •Anticipated in the near or far future.A short distance above I-ch’ang is the prospective site of a hydroelectric dam that has vast promise for the industrialization of central China. — 1968 •Looking forward in time; acting with foresight.The French king, and the king of Sweden are […] circumspect, industrious, and prospective, too, in this affair. — 1668 •Being a study that starts with the present situation and follows participants into the future •Indicating grammatically an activity about to begin.What some other languages convey with prospective aspect, English conveys with expressions like going to drive the car home. •Of or relating to a prospect; furnishing a prospect.And in times long and dark Prospective Glass / Fore-saw what future dayes should bring to pass, — 1626 noun3 •(informal) A prospective (potential) member, student, employee, date, partner, etc.Would you like to show the prospective around?I'm meeting the prospectives at 3. •(no longer used) The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.the whole Scene of affairs was changed from Spain to France there now lay the prospective — 1642 •(no longer used) A perspective glass. formsprospectives
