- expected to do something or to become something synonym potential
- a prospective buyer
- I had a phone call from a prospective client today.
- expected to happen soon synonym forthcoming
- They are worried about prospective changes in the law.
- On learning of a prospective sale, the lawyer should call the client as soon as possible.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘looking forward, having foresight’): from obsolete French prospectif, -ive or late Latin prospectivus, from Latin prospectus ‘view’, from prospicere ‘look forward’, from pro- ‘forward’ + specere ‘to look’.
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