Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who has regard to the future; one whose main interest lies in the future; an expectant.
- noun In theology, one who holds that nearly the whole of the Book of Revelation refers principally to events yet to come.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One whose chief interests are in what is to come; one who anxiously, eagerly, or confidently looks forward to the future; an expectant.
- noun (Theol.) One who believes or maintains that the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Bible is to be in the future.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
adherent to the principles of theartistic movement offuturism . - noun One who studies and
predicts possible futures. - adjective In the style of
futurism .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who predicts the future
- adjective of or relating to futurism
- noun a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) will be fulfilled in the future
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Examples
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And I've always been nervous about the term futurist, because you seem doomed to failure because you can't really predict it.
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And I've always been nervous about the term futurist, because you seem doomed to failure because you can't really predict it.
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And I've always been nervous about the term futurist, because you seem doomed to failure because you can't really predict it.
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Even the term "futurist" is now considered a logical definition of a career which, if used a few years ago, would have given the vision of a carnival side show attraction.
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According to a certain futurist, on-going technological developments (i.e. the Internet) will lead the U.S. society in a direction where being able to read and write in English well will become less important.
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And thus I learned my first lesson about the profession: the way you become a futurist is simply to call yourself one.
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Considering this potential Europe, de Gaulle the futurist is constantly in opposition to himself as de Gaulle the conservative.
Napoleon FailedWill We Succeed? (Towards a United States of Europe) 1967
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She's a professional "futurist" - essentially, a lady who's learned how to milk money out of corporate CEOs by telling them about "trends" that she's spotted.
Gawker 2009
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She says that medicine will allow human beings to "transcend commonly accepted limits" of human life and calls futurist Raymond Kurzweil, who promotes similar ideas, "the smartest guy on the planet."
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She says that medicine will allow human beings to "transcend commonly accepted limits" of human life and calls futurist Raymond Kurzweil, who promotes similar ideas, "the smartest guy on the planet."
gretchen commented on the word futurist
We are all making the future every minute that we live, by way of our collective and individual decisions. If we think like that, everybody is a futurist. (Hazel Hendersson)
March 18, 2009