futuristic

comparative more futuristic · superlative most futuristic

1. Of technology, a concept, etc, so far advanced as to appear to be from the future.

   The modernistic architecture was both ugly and unfunctional, in spite of its futuristic appearance.

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   The same director's film The Quiet Earth (1984), from a novel by Craig Harrison, lands us back in futuristic territory with a pakeha "mad scientist" (plus female pendant for "mateship" interest) and a Vietnam-scarred Maori guerrilla surviving a cosmic catastrophe.

   1996, Eckhard Breitinger (editor), Defining New Idioms and Alternative Forms of Expression, page 214

   So Samantha, the A.I. assistant with whom the sad-sack divorcé Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) fell in love in “Her,” felt like a futuristic revelation.

   2024 May 20, Alissa Wilkinson, “What We Lose When ChatGPT Sounds Like Scarlett Johansson”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   Synonyms: futurist

2. grammarIn or relating to the future tense.