PROSPECTIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prospective mean? 

• PROSPECTIVE (adjective)
  The adjective PROSPECTIVE has 1 sense:

1. of or concerned with or related to the future

  Familiarity information: PROSPECTIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROSPECTIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or concerned with or related to the future

Context example:

the statute is solely prospective in operation

Similar:

likely; potential (expected to become or be; in prospect)

future (effective in or looking toward the future)

Also:

future (yet to be or coming)

Antonym:

retrospective (concerned with or related to the past)

 Context examples 

Your present or prospective employer or client will want you in their corner, and by the course of your talks, this truth will be evident.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

John always said what was his was hers, but would he think it right to spend not only the prospective five-and-twenty, but another five-and-twenty out of the household fund?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This was a prospective, observational study which included 545 adult men who underwent multi-slice computed tomography (CT) coronary angiography for suspected coronary artery disease.

(Grey Hair Linked with Increased Heart Disease Risk in Men, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Prospective, randomized, controlled trials and meta-analyses of prospective, randomized, controlled trials.

(Level of Evidence I, NCI Dictionary)

The participants are from an ongoing, prospective cohort study, the Psoriasis Atherosclerosis Cardiometabolic Initiative cohort at NIH.

(Psoriasis therapy linked to reduced coronary inflammation in patients with the skin condition, National Institutes of Health)

The criteria in a protocol that prospective subjects must meet to be eligible for participation in a study.

(Inclusion Criteria, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The prospective results showed that the variations in sleep duration and bedtimes preceded the development of metabolic dysfunction.

(Study links irregular sleep patterns to metabolic disorders, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Prospective, nonrandomized, controlled trials; prospective cohort studies; prospective case series; and cross-sectional studies.

(Level of Evidence II, NCI Dictionary)

EXAMPLE(S): prospective, retrospective, cross-sectional, other

(Observational Study Protocol Version Time Perspective Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

A team led by researchers at the University of Cambridge studied data from the ADDITION-Cambridge trial, a prospective cohort study of 867 people with newly diagnosed diabetes aged 40 and 69 years.

(Type 2 diabetes remission possible with ‘achievable’ weight loss, University of Cambridge)