coming

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/ˈkʌmɪŋ/

adj 3noun 1

Collocations

ADJ.

behind, discouraged, earlier, elderly, good, late, many, systematic

The elderly coming generation will face serious challenges with climate change and healthcare costs.

VERB + COMING

aren't, chill, coat, know, pass, prevented, tunes, went

I didn't know what was coming when I opened that mysterious letter.

COMING + NOUN

days, exam, exhibition, home, nowadays, sunday, winter, year

The coming exam made all the students nervous and stressed for weeks.

PREP.

along, from, in, in, off, out, up, with

I heard footsteps coming from the kitchen late last night.

ADV.

certainly

She's certainly coming to the party next Saturday with her boyfriend.

Definitions

noun

The act of arriving; an arrival.

The/this Sunday coming / coming Sunday.

But he found it strange to think […] of all these little things that cluster round the comings, and the stayings, and the goings, that he would know nothing of them, nothing of what they had been, as long as he lived, […]

adj

Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next.

We expect great things from you this coming year.

She will have two or three paintings in the coming exhibition.

Newly in fashion; advancing into maturity or achievement.

Ergonomic wallets are the coming thing.

Ready to come; complaisant; fond.

How coming to the poet every muse!

That he had been so affectionate a husband, was no ill argument to the coming dowager, that he might prove as kind to her.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momen

advent

noun — the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse

noun — the act of drawing spatially closer to something

noun — the temporal property of becoming nearer in time

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

have another think coming

To be deluded, to be mistaken; to need to rethink something one has determined; to need to reconsider one's plans or expectations.

If you think you're going to marry my daughter, you have another think coming.

have another thing coming

Alternative form of have another think coming.

get what's coming to one

To experience the consequences of one's actions.

I hope that creep gets what's coming to him, and soon!

have it coming

To deserve or merit, as the consequences of one's actions.

You had that coming (to you).

up and coming

Alternative form of up-and-coming.

Example Bank

The/this Sunday coming / coming Sunday.

Wiktionary

We expect great things from you this coming year.

Wiktionary

She will have two or three paintings in the coming exhibition.

Wiktionary

Oh! if you wish that happiness / your coming days and years may bless,

Wiktionary

We're getting out of here. The cops are coming.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, coming is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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