Definition of
Prospect
- (noun, state) the possibility of future success
- (noun, cognition) belief about (or mental picture of) the future
- (noun, person) someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.)
- (noun, cognition) the visual percept of a region
- (noun, act) a prediction of the course of a disease
- (verb, perception) search for something desirable
- (verb, cognition) explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals
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Synonyms of Prospect
aspect, candidate, chance, expectation, medical prognosis, outlook, panorama, prognosis, scene, view, vista
Alternate forms of Prospect
Derivations: prospect, prospector
Hyponyms: anticipation, apprehension, background, coast, expectancy, exposure, foreground, foretaste, glimpse, ground, hope, middle distance, misgiving, possibility, promise, side view, tableau
Hypernyms: belief, explore, individual, look, medical diagnosis, mortal, person, potency, potential, potentiality, research, search, somebody, someone, soul, visual image, visual percept
Origin of the word Prospect
- early 15c., "act of looking into the distance," from L. prospectus "view, outlook," prop. pp. of prospicere "look out on, look forward," from pro- "forward" + specere "look at" (see scope (1)). Meaning "extensive view of the landscape" is from 1530s; transf. sense of "mental view or survey" is from 1620s. Sense of "person or thing considered promisin… more
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Words that sound like Prospect
perspicacity, perspicuity, prize fight, prizefight, proxy fight
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