Of or pertaining to consequences.
Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.
Of a stream, having a course determined by the slope it formed on.
An event which follows another.
The second term of a ratio, i.e. the term b in the ratio a:b, the other being the antecedent.
A consequent stream.
The second half of a hypothetical proposition; Q, if the form of the proposition is "If P, then Q."
Of or relating to a prospect; furnishing a prospect.
Anticipated in the near or far future.
Indicating grammatically an activity about to begin.
Likely or expected to happen or become.
Looking forward in time; acting with foresight.
A study that starts with the present situation and follows participants into the future
1613 March 2 (first performance), Francis Beaumont, “The Masque of the Inner-Temple and Gray’s Inn, Gray’s Inn and the Inner-Temple;[…]”, in The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher:[…], volume IV, London: […] John Stockdale,[…], published 1811, →OCLC, page 573, column 2
[T]hey [two pavillions] were trimmed on the inside with rich armour and military furniture, hanged up as upon the walls; and behind the tents there were represented, in prospective, the tops of divers other tents, as if it had been a camp.
A prospective (potential) member, student, employee, date, partner, etc.