Usually means: Looking forward to future possibilities.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word prospective:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. prospective: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. prospective: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prospective: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prospective: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prospective: Vocabulary.com
  6. Prospective, prospective: Wordnik
  7. prospective: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. prospective: Wiktionary
  9. prospective: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. prospective: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. prospective: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. prospective: Dictionary.com
  13. prospective: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Prospective (disambiguation), Prospective: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Prospective: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. prospective: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. prospective: Rhymezone
  18. Prospective: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. prospective: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. prospective: Free Dictionary
  21. prospective: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. prospective: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. prospective: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. prospective: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prospective: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Prospective: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. prospective: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  4. prospective: Medical dictionary
  5. Prospective: Drug Medical Dictionary
  6. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prospective: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Likely or expected to happen or become.
adjective:  Anticipated in the near or far future.
adjective:  Of or relating to a prospect; furnishing a prospect.
adjective:  Looking forward in time; acting with foresight.
adjective:  (medicine, of research) A study that starts with the present situation and follows participants into the future
adjective:  (grammar) Indicating grammatically an activity about to begin.
noun:  (obsolete) The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.
noun:  (obsolete) A perspective glass.
noun:  (informal, often plural) A prospective (potential) member, student, employee, date, partner, etc.

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