Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded.
consumptive
consumptive
adj
(pathology) Relating to pulmonary tuberculosis.
Having a tendency to consume; dissipating; destructive; wasteful.
Of, or relating to consumption.
noun
A person suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.
copulatives
copulatives
noun
plural of copulative
postdivorce
postdivorce
adj
After divorce.
postvesical
postvesical
adj
(anatomy) Behind a bladder, especially the urinary bladder.
prosecutive
prosecutive
adj
(law) Of or pertaining to prosecution.
prospective
prospective
adj
(grammar) Indicating grammatically an activity about to begin.
(medicine, of research) A study that starts with the present situation and follows participants into the future
Anticipated in the near or far future.
Likely or expected to happen or become.
Looking forward in time; acting with foresight.
Of or relating to a prospect; furnishing a prospect.
noun
(informal, often plural) A prospective (potential) member, student, employee, date, partner, etc.
(obsolete) A perspective glass.
(obsolete) The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.
1613 March 2 (first performance), Francis Beaumont, “The Masque of the Inner-Temple and Gray’s Inn, Gray’s Inn and the Inner-Temple;[…]”, in The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher:[…], volume IV, London: […] John Stockdale,[…], published 1811, OCLC 910211381, page 573, column 2:
[T]hey [two pavillions] were trimmed on the inside with rich armour and military furniture, hanged up as upon the walls; and behind the tents there were represented, in prospective, the tops of divers other tents, as if it had been a camp.