prospect
prospects; prospecting; prospected
A prospect is the possibility that something fabulous will happen. After you graduate top of your class at Harvard, for example, your job prospects look great.
Prospect is from the Latin word prospectus which means a "view or outlook." A prospect is still a way of looking ahead and expecting good things. It's like potential in that it's something that might be but isn't yet. There is also the potential for something bad to happen, but prospects usually look good. In the 1800s, when men in floppy brown hats started saying "There's gold in them there hills!" the noun became a verb — to prospect is to search for gold. Either way, when you have prospects, you have a golden future.
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the possibility of future success“his prospects as a writer are excellent”
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synonyms:
chance
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potency, potential, potentiality
the inherent capacity for coming into being
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potency, potential, potentiality
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belief about (or mental picture of) the future
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synonyms:
expectation, outlook
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hope, promise
grounds for feeling hopeful about the future
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foretaste
an early limited awareness of something yet to occur
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possibility
a future prospect or potential
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anticipation, expectancy
something expected (as on the basis of a norm)
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apprehension, misgiving
painful expectation
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rainbow
an illusory hope
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life expectancy
an expected time to live as calculated on the basis of statistical probabilities
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belief
any cognitive content held as true
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a prediction of the course of a disease
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synonyms:
medical prognosis, prognosis
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medical diagnosis
identification of a disease from its symptoms
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medical diagnosis
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someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.)
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search for something desirable
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explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals
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the visual percept of a region
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background, ground
the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
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coast
the area within view
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exposure
aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces
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foreground
the part of a scene that is near the viewer
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glimpse
a brief or incomplete view
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middle distance
the part of a scene between the foreground and the background
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side view
a view from the side of something
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tableau
any dramatic scene
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profile
an outline of something (especially a human face as seen from one side)
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visual image, visual percept
a percept that arises from the eyes; an image in the visual system
Vocabulary lists containing prospect
After her grandfather becomes sick, eleven-year-old Maizy moves from Los Angeles to Last Chance, Minnesota, where she struggles to fit in as her family's Chinese restaurant is targeted with racist attacks.
Stories about a sarcastic fish, a Japanese anime theme park, and a beloved bird all contributed words to this list of vocabulary from the week's news.
Sixteen-year old Sarah is thrown into an existential crisis as she struggles to regain her artistic abilities while struggling with her parents' toxic relationship in the urban ruins of Philadelphia.
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