futuristic
adjUK /ˌfjuːt͡ʃəˈɹɪstɪk/ · US /ˌfjut͡ʃəˈɹɪstɪk/
Etymology From future + -istic.
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Of technology, a concept, etc, so far advanced as to appear to be from the future.
- The modernistic architecture was both ugly and unfunctional, in spite of its futuristic appearance.
- The same director's film The Quiet Earth (1984), from a novel by Craig Harrison, lands us back in futuristic territory with a pakeha "mad scientist" (plus female pendant for "mateship" interest) and a Vietnam-scarred Maori guerrilla surviving a cosmic catastrophe.1996, Eckhard Breitinger (editor), Defining New Idioms and Alternative Forms of Expression, page 214:
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- So Samantha, the A.I. assistant with whom the sad-sack divorcé Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) fell in love in “Her,” felt like a futuristic revelation.2024 May 20, Alissa Wilkinson, “What We Lose When ChatGPT Sounds Like Scarlett Johansson”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences In or relating to the future tense.
- Derived terms
- Afrofuturistic, cubo-futuristic, futuristically, neofuturistic, nonfuturistic, retrofuturistic, ultrafuturistic, unfuturistic
- Related terms
- futurism