future tense

1. 1.

   a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future

   Synonymsfuture

   Broadertense

Questions about future tense

What does future tense mean?

future tense means "a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future".

What is another word for future tense?

Close synonyms include future. 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 tense a common word?

future 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.