Futuristic
adj.hopeful, energeticeveryday
What it means
Innovative and suggestive of an advanced future.
Reach for it when describing something that looks or feels like an imagined advanced future
The futuristic bus runs quietly without exhaust fumes.
Choose between these
7- playful
space-age
retro imagery of rockets and sleek technology suits the tone
not when Space-age sounds dated and can turn serious praise into camp.
- warm
a genuinely new method creates value now
not when Innovation need not evoke the future visually.
- warm
bold imagination rather than appearance deserves praise
not when Visionary applies to ideas and people more naturally than objects.
- professional
advanced
capability is demonstrably beyond an earlier standard
not when Advanced design may look ordinary rather than futuristic.
- professional
the work uses the newest available technique
not when Cutting-edge is time-sensitive marketing language and needs verification.
- formal
ultramodern
architecture or style is extremely current and sleek
not when Ultramodern concerns present fashion, not an imagined future.
- literary
science-fictional
the design deliberately resembles speculative fiction
not when Science-fictional can suggest impractical fantasy.
Said against
4- old-fashioned
- dated
- traditional
- antiquated
It naturally appears in
3- futuristic design
The futuristic design hides the wheels beneath the cabin.
- futuristic city
The film presents a quiet, walkable futuristic city.
- look futuristic
Curved solar panels make the station look futuristic.
Where this comes from
- wiktionary, English adjective sense: resembling or suggestive of the future opens in a new tab · retrieved 2026-07-26
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