coming back

1. 1.

   the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction

   Synonymsreturn

   Broaderturning

Questions about coming back

What does coming back mean?

coming back means "the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction".

What is another word for coming back?

Close synonyms include return. 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 back a common word?

coming back is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.