All prospect synonyms
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P p noun prospect
- foreordination — previous ordination or appointment.
- fifty-fifty — equally good and bad, likely and unlikely, favorable and unfavorable, etc.: a fifty-fifty chance of winning.
- expectation — A strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future.
- bright side — A consoling aspect of a difficult situation.
- big idea — any plan or proposal that is grandiose, impractical, and usually unsolicited: You're always coming around here with your big ideas.
- liableness — Quality of being liable; liability.
- buyer — A buyer is a person who is buying something or who intends to buy it.
- high hopes — great expectations
- offing — the state or fact of being off.
- canniness — the quality of being canny
- inevitability — unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary: an inevitable conclusion.
- headset — Radio, Telephony. a device consisting of one or two earphones with a headband for holding them over the ears and sometimes with a mouthpiece attached.
- eventuality — A possible event or outcome.
- conceivability — capable of being conceived; imaginable.
- aftertime — the time to come; the future
- likelihood — the state of being likely or probable; probability.
- likeliness — the state of being likely or probable; probability.
- bird's eye view — You say that you have a bird's eye view of a place when you are looking down at it from a great height, so that you can see a long way but everything looks very small.
- intendment — Law. the true or correct meaning of something.
verb prospect
- look for — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- go into — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- look see — a visual inspection or survey; look; examination: have a look-see.
- chew over — If you chew something over, you keep thinking about it.
- gunned — a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
- wiretap — an act or instance of tapping telephone or telegraph wires for evidence or other information.
- ferreting — a domesticated, usually red-eyed, and albinic variety of the polecat, used in Europe for driving rabbits and rats from their burrows.
- investigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- feel out — to perceive or examine by touch.
- look-see — a visual inspection or survey; look; examination: have a look-see.
- eyeball — Look or stare at closely.
- wiretapping — an act or instance of tapping telephone or telegraph wires for evidence or other information.