Eventually vs Prospective - What's the difference?
eventually | prospective |
In the end.
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage ,
(mathematics, of a sequence) For some tail.
Likely or expected to happen or become.
Anticipated in the near or far future.
Of or relating to a prospect; furnishing a prospect.
* Milton
Looking forward in time; acting with foresight.
* Sir J. Child
(obsolete) The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.
(obsolete) A perspective glass.
(informal, often plural) A (potential) member, student, employee, date, partner, etc.
* 2006 , Verve: The Spirit of Today's Woman , volume 14, issues 4-6, page 114:
As an adverb eventually
is in the end.As an adjective prospective is
likely or expected to happen or become.As a noun prospective is
(obsolete) the scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.eventually
English
Adverb
(-)- It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
Synonyms
* at last * finally * yet * ultimately * in the endSee also
* frequentlySee also
* sooner or laterprospective
English
Adjective
(-)- Prospective students are those who have already applied to the university, but have yet to be admitted.
- Time's long and dark prospective glass.
- The French king and king of Sweden are circumspect, industrious, and prospective , too, in this affair.
Noun
(en noun)- (Chaucer)
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
- Would you like to show the prospective around?
- I'm meeting the prospectives at 3.
- At the moment, meeting interesting, 'could be, maybe not' prospectives around the globe keeps her entertained.
