Prospective

a.	1.	Of or pertaining to a prospect; furnishing a prospect; perspective. Time's long and dark prospective glass. - Milton.
	2.	Looking forward in time; acting with foresight; - opposed to retrospective. The French king of Sweden are circumspect, industrious, and prospective, too, in this affair. - Sir J. Child.
	3.	Being within view or consideration, as a future event or contingency; relating to the future: expected; as, a prospective benefit. Points on which the promises, at the time of ordination, had no prospective bearing. - W. Jay.
n.	1.	The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.
	2.	A perspective glass.

Adj.	1.	prospective - concerned with or related to the future; "prospective earnings"; "a prospective mother"; "the statute is solely prospective in operation" Antonyms: retrospective - concerned with or related to the past; "retrospective self-justification"
	2.	prospective - anticipated for the near future; "the prospective students"; "his prospective bride"

LAW, PROSPECTIVE. One which provides for, and regulates the future acts of men, and does not interfere in any way with what has past.

PROSPECTIVE. That which is applicable to the future; it is used in opposition to retrospective. To be just, a law ought always to be prospective. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 116.

anticipated, approaching, awaited, coming, desired, destinal, destined, determined, due, emergent, eventual, expected, extrapolated, fatal, fated, fatidic, foreseen, forthcoming, future, futuristic, hereafter, hoped-for, imminent, impending, in prospect, in view, incipient, later, long-expected, nearing, on the horizon, overdue, pending, plotted, potential, predicted, presumed, probable, projected, promised, prophesied, to come, to-be, ultimate