future perfect tense

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

   Broaderperfective

Questions about future perfect tense

What does future perfect tense mean?

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

What is another word for future perfect tense?

Close synonyms include future perfect. 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 tense a common word?

future perfect tense 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.