Noun: futurologist
| Singular | futurologist |
| Plural | futurologists |
Sample Sentences
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Although I do not pretend to be a futurologist, I would be embarrassed if my view of the trends and causes of social life in the United States had become invalid in such a short interval. (It is easy to be a success as a futurologist as long as your predictions are about what's going to happen fifty years ahead. No one can prove you wrong until fifty years go by. […]) [2011, Marvin Harris, Why Nothing Works: The Anthropology of Daily Life, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page vi:]
Nouns inflected like futurologist
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English futurology
3. Proto-Indo-European *-id-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
5. Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
6. Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
7. Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
8. Proto-Hellenic *-tās
9. Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
10. Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
11. Latin -istader.
12. Old French -istebor.
13. Middle English -ist
14. English -ist
15. English futurologist
16. From futurology + -ist.
Verbs referencing "futurologist"
Finnish Nouns
futurologi.