Dictionary

futurous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈfjuːt͡ʃəɹəs/

Etymology

From future + -ous.

Meanings

1. Of or relating to the future
   • Only a futurous population will understand these bizarre concepts!
   • I watched the futurous sun set before heading back to my era.
   • "But what say I here? Enough! Enough! At this place but one thing befits me—silence: lest I should infringe on that which only one younger than I am, only one more futurous than I am, that which my Zarathustra is free to do—Zarathustra the ungodly..." 1917, John Neville Figgis, The Will to Freedom: Or, The Gospel of Nietzsche and the Gospel of Christ:
   • America around this continent of ours and training the crews of her men-of-war across the largest and deepest oceans, is certainly an act of very right naval policy, chiefly on the behalf of order and discipline of industry, labor and trade, of diplomacy and fraternal comity, and, at last, it means an exchange of civilisation amongst the peoples of the several countries of the young, immense and futurous continent of both Americas. 1909, Franklin Matthews, With the Battle Fleet: Cruise of the Sixteen Battleships of the United States Atlantic Fleet from Hampton Roads to the Golden Gate, December, 1907-May, 1908:
   • a futurous moment
   • Certainly he has also dared more, innovated more, defied more, challenged fate more than all other animals taken together, he, the great self-experimenter, the unsatisfied and insatiate one, struggling with animal nature and the gods for final supremacy, — he, the still unconquered, the eternally futurous one who finds no rest from his own thronging power, so that his future like a spur inexorably rakes the flesh of every Now of his. 1897, Friedrich Nietzsche, Alexander Tille, William August Haussmann, A Genealogy of Morals:

Forms

Relateds

futuristic

Synonyms

future · futural · futuritial