future

1. 1.

   the time yet to come

   Synonymshereafterfuturitytime to come

   Antonymspast

   Broadertime

   Narrowerkingdom comeby-and-byoffingtomorrowmanana
2. 2.

   a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future

   Synonymsfuture tense

   Broadertense
3. 3.

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

   Broadercommodity

   Narroweroil futuresoybean futurewheat future

Other forms of future

plural

futures·

comparative

futurer·

superlative

futurest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about future

What does future mean?

future means "yet to be or coming". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in future?

future has 2 syllables: fu-ture. The stress falls on "fu". In IPA it is /ˈfjutʃɚ/.

What is another word for future?

Close synonyms include next, succeeding, hereafter, futurity, time to come. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of future?

The recorded antonyms are past, present, past.

Is future a common word?

future is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.