future perfect

1. 1.

   a perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future

   “`I will have finished' is an example of the future perfect”

   Synonymsfuture perfect tense

   Broaderperfective

Questions about future perfect

What does future perfect mean?

future perfect means "a perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future".

What is another word for future perfect?

Close synonyms include future perfect tense. 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.

Is future perfect a common word?

future perfect is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.