Future and Now

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Future

Future noun - Time that is to come.
Usage example: in the future, there may be medical discoveries that are beyond our fondest dreams
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Now is an antonym for future.
Nearby Words: futurist, futurism

Now

Now noun - The time currently existing or in progress.
Usage example: I know I said you could go, but that was then and this is now
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Future is an antonym for now in topics: immediately, presently, at the present, in the immediate future.
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  • Future Imperfect When present-day writers get the past wrong, it's Anachronism Stew or Popular History for more recent history; similarly, when past writers predicted the then-future/now-past badly, that's Zeerust.
    Source: Future Imperfect
  • Masquerade A freaked out mother tells the authorities she had a son with a guy from the future and now robots from the future are trying to kill him because he's going to save the world.
    Source: Masquerade
  • Music / Dead Winter Dead Sarajevo is in ruins, the once-hopeful Yugoslavia lost its bright future and now a war zone.
    Source: Music / Dead Winter Dead
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