futuristic
- 01 B2 Upper Intermediate
looking or acting like it belongs to the future because it is very modern or advanced.
of technology, design, or concepts so far advanced as to appear to belong to a future era.
Simple“The new electric car has a futuristic dashboard with a giant touch screen.”
In context“The city's new transport hub features a futuristic glass canopy that uses solar energy to power the entire station.”
- 02 C1 Advanced
relating to the way we talk about things that will happen later.
relating to or denoting a grammatical tense or construction that expresses events in the future.
Simple“The teacher explained how to use futuristic phrases like 'will go' or 'is going to'.”
In context“The linguist analysed the futuristic markers in the dialect, noting how they differed from standard auxiliary verb usage.”
UsageIn linguistics, this adjective typically modifies nouns like 'tense', 'construction', or 'marker'.
Synonyms
From future + -istic.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.