Definitions

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  • adjective Into the future; moving forward in time.
  • adverb Into the future; moving forward in time.

Etymologies

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future +‎ -ward

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Examples

  • Thinking about why our memories seem well aligned with an entropy-based Universal clock is interesting, but to me not obviously germane to other distant not-human-memory-equipped users of the same idea of clocking things relative to the overall entropy of the observable universe, with futureward being the direction of increasing entropy.

    Incompatible Arrows, III: Lewis Carroll Sean 2008

  • "On the order of a hundred thousand years futureward."

    Genesis ANDERSON, Poul 2000

  • Then, with delicate care, she moved her awareness futureward until land and dream-vision converged into solid reality.

    Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988

  • This settled, Scait's thoughts ranged futureward and preoccupied speculation gave way to desire fierce as greed.

    Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988

  • Why, those Goths of mine were getting off lightly compared to, say, millions of European Jews and Gypsies, less than ten years futureward, or millions of Russians at this very moment.

    Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

  • This was far from the first time that experience reminded him that people in any given era could be intrinsically as sharp as anybody futureward of them.

    Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

  • Sonic gun, he realized, from futureward of his home era, soundless, recoilless.

    Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

  • I headed futureward and took quick peeks at intervals.

    There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972

  • Mendoza's gun blasted, and Havig sprang futureward barely in time.

    There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972

  • Then curious that none like Havig seem to have been born futureward of the Eyrie - of, anyhow, Polaris House.

    There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972

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