futuristic

adjective

fu·tur·is·tic | \ ˌfyü-chə-ˈri-stik

Definition of futuristic

1 : very modern futuristic furniture/designs On Friday, Germany and Costa Rica will meet in a futuristic, translucent-skinned stadium in Munich to kick off the monthlong mosh pit known as the World Cup.— Grant Wahl

2a : relating to, describing, or depicting events in an imagined future a futuristic novel/story/film

b : imagined, described, or depicted as occurring or existing in the future A space elevator … is a futuristic structure, made famous by science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke in his 1979 novel The Fountains of Paradise.— Adam Brown The Space Rangers are a group of futuristic troubleshooters who zoom around the galaxy in a battle-scarred spaceship, …— Alan Carter … the long-awaited sequel to the classic Blade Runner is about to hit cinemas featuring more … frenzied futuristic action.— James Moore

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Examples of futuristic in a Sentence

The new offices are very futuristic. The film depicts a futuristic society.

Recent Examples on the Web The first, set in 2022, sees Jade moving with her father and her sister Billy to the futuristic New Raccoon City. — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 12 May 2022 On Eighth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, right next to a Chik-fil-A, is Spyscape — a two-floor, futuristic-looking museum/interactive experience space that gives spycraft lovers a close-up look at the world of espionage. — Todd Spangler, Variety, 3 June 2022 Its futuristic vision is for a rotating wheel orbiting Earth -- but will our planet's high rollers ever get a spin? — Maureen O'hare, CNN, 7 May 2022 Twitter had mixed reactions to Billie’s futuristic vision. — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 4 Apr. 2022 Watching anything get vacuum sealed in a plastic bag, becoming a futuristic play food version of itself, is hypnotizing. — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 4 May 2022 Kate Darling, a researcher at MIT who studies human-robot relationships, notes that mourning the death of a robot is hardly futuristic. — Will Knight, Wired, 10 Mar. 2022 It’s not the futuristic version (thank godness) or the Western Tilted Town (also thank goodness). — Erik Kain, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022 The Twitter post from Bosworth included an image of him wearing a slicker, more futuristic version of the company’s wireless VR headset. — Adario Strange, Quartz, 26 Oct. 2021 See More

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