future progressive

1. 1.

   a progressive tense used to express action that will be on-going in the future

   “`I will be running' is an example of the future progressive”

   Synonymsfuture progressive tense

   Broaderprogressive

Questions about future progressive

What does future progressive mean?

future progressive means "a progressive tense used to express action that will be on-going in the future".

What is another word for future progressive?

Close synonyms include future progressive 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 progressive a common word?

future progressive 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.