on-going

1. 1.

   currently happening

   “an ongoing economic crisis”

   Synonymsongoing

   Similarcurrent

Questions about on-going

What does on-going mean?

on-going means "currently happening".

How many syllables are in on-going?

on-going has 2 syllables: on--going. The stress falls on "on-".

What is another word for on-going?

Close synonyms include ongoing. 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 on-going a common word?

on-going 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.