"retrofuture" meaning in English

See retrofuture in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: retrofutures [plural]
Etymology: retro- + future Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|retro|future}} retro- + future Head templates: {{en-noun}} retrofuture (plural retrofutures)
  1. An outdated vision of the future. Related terms: retrofuturistic
    Sense id: en-retrofuture-en-noun-Kt1NJ5NJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with retro-

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for retrofuture meaning in English (0.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "retro",
        "3": "future"
      },
      "expansion": "retro- + future",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "retro- + future",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "retrofutures",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "retrofuture (plural retrofutures)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with retro-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An outdated vision of the future."
      ],
      "id": "en-retrofuture-en-noun-Kt1NJ5NJ",
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "retrofuturistic"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "retrofuture"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "retro",
        "3": "future"
      },
      "expansion": "retro- + future",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "retro- + future",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "retrofutures",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "retrofuture (plural retrofutures)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "retrofuturistic"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with retro-"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An outdated vision of the future."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "retrofuture"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (46b31b8 and c7ea76d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.