up-and-coming

1. 1.

   working hard to promote an enterprise

   Synonymsenergeticgumptiousindustrious

   Similarenterprising

Questions about up-and-coming

What does up-and-coming mean?

up-and-coming means "working hard to promote an enterprise".

How many syllables are in up-and-coming?

up-and-coming has 4 syllables: u-p-and--co-ming. The stress falls on "p-and-".

What is another word for up-and-coming?

Close synonyms include energetic, gumptious, industrious. 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 up-and-coming a common word?

up-and-coming is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.