Dictionary

futuristic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˌfjuːt͡ʃəˈɹɪstɪk/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˌfjut͡ʃəˈɹɪstɪk/ (General-American)
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Etymology

Etymology tree English future Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English -istic English futuristic From future + -istic.

Meanings

1. Of technology, a concept, etc, so far advanced as to appear to be from the future.
   • The same director's film The Quiet Earth (1984), from a novel by Craig Harrison, lands us back in futuristic territory with a pakeha "mad scientist" (plus female pendant for "mateship" interest) and a Vietnam-scarred Maori guerrilla surviving a cosmic catastrophe. 1996, Eckhard Breitinger (editor), Defining New Idioms and Alternative Forms of Expression, page 214:
   • So Samantha, the A.I. assistant with whom the sad-sack divorcé Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) fell in love in “Her,” felt like a futuristic revelation. 2024 May 20, Alissa Wilkinson, “What We Lose When ChatGPT Sounds Like Scarlett Johansson”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • The modernistic architecture was both ugly and unfunctional, in spite of its futuristic appearance.
2. In or relating to the future tense.

Forms

Deriveds

neofuturistic · cubo-futuristic · ultrafuturistic · unfuturistic · nonfuturistic · Afrofuturistic · retrofuturistic · futuristically

Relateds

futurism

Synonyms

futurist