coming

1. 1.

   of the relatively near future

   “the approaching election”

   “this coming Thursday”

   “the forthcoming holidays”

   “the upcoming spring fashions”

   Synonymsapproachingforthcomingupcoming

   Similarfuture

Other forms of coming

plural

comings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about coming

What does coming mean?

coming means "the act of drawing spatially closer to something". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in coming?

coming has 2 syllables: com-ing. The stress falls on "com". In IPA it is /ˈkʌmɪŋ/.

What is another word for coming?

Close synonyms include approach, approaching, advent, approach, approaching. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coming a common word?

coming is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with coming?

8 words rhyme with coming. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.