expected to do something or to become something 有望的；可能的；预期的；潜在的 a prospective buyer 可能的买主 I had a phone call from a prospective client today. 我今天接到一个有望成为我们客户的人打来的电话。
expected to happen soon 即将发生的；行将来临的
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘looking forward, having foresight’): from obsolete French prospectif, -ive or late Latin prospectivus, from Latin prospectus ‘view’, from prospicere ‘look forward’, from pro- ‘forward’ + specere ‘to look’.