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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

futurable en · ADJ

Etymology

From future + -able. Compare Spanish futurible.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Capable of existing or occurring in the future: possible.
    • By contrast to his crystal-clear, futurable insights, however, the 'furious reporter' leaves us very much in the dark with regard to what's going on right now. 1985, Jacob L. Mey, Whose Language?: A study in Linguistic Pragmatics, page 319:
    • But what the issue of this conference concluded would have been, is only known to Him, who knew what the men of Keilah would do (1 Sam. xxiii. 12), and whose prescience extends not only to things future, but futurable […] 1845, John Nicholas Bennett, The Church History of Britain:
    • Man projects the future as futurable (possible). 1979, Parviz Morewedge, Islamic Philosophical Theology, page 78:

Synonyms

possible