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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations |
| Section VI. Time |
| 2. Relative Time |
| 1. Time with reference to Succession |
| 121. [Prospective Time.] Futurity. |
| NOUN: | FUTURITY, futurition [rare]; future, hereafter, time to come; approaching -, coming -, subsequent -, after- -time, -age, -days, -hours, -years, -ages, -life; morrow, to-morrow, by and by, the yet [rare]; millennium, chiliad [rare], millenary, doomsday, day of judgment, crack of doom, remote future. APPROACH OF TIME, advent, time drawing on, womb of time; destiny [See Destiny]; eventuality. HERITAGE, heirs, posterity, descendants. PROSPECT, anticipation (expectation) [See Expectation]; foresight [See Foresight]. |
| VERB: | LOOK FORWARDS; anticipate (expect) [See Expectation], (foresee) [See Foresight]; forestall &c. (be early) [See Earliness]. APPROACH, await, threaten; impend &c. (be destined) [See Destiny]; come on, draw on; draw near. |
| ADJECTIVE: | FUTURE, to come; coming (impending) [See Destiny]; next, near; near at hand, close at hand; eventual, ulterior; anticipant, expectant, prospective, in prospect (expectation) [See Expectation]; millenary, millennial. |
| ADVERB: | PROSPECTIVELY, hereafter, in future; on the knees of the gods; kal [Hind.], to-morrow, the day after tomorrow; in course of time, in process of time, in the fullness of time; eventually, ultimately, sooner or later; proximo; paulo post futurum [L.]; in after time; one of these days; after a time, after a while. FROM THIS TIME; henceforth, henceforwards; thence; thenceforth, thenceforward; whereupon, upon which. SOON (early) [See Earliness]; on the eve of, on the point of, on the brink of; about to; close upon. |
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