# upcoming

Pronunciation: say "UP-kum-ing" /ˈʌpˌkʌmɪŋ/

## Adjective

1. Scheduled or expected to take place or come out fairly soon.
   - Simple: Going to happen or appear soon, in the near future.
   - _The committee released the schedule for the upcoming election._
   - _Reviewers had only praise for the trailer of her upcoming film._
2. Increasingly successful or prominent; on the way to recognition.
   - Simple: Becoming more and more successful and likely to do well soon.
   - _The festival showcases upcoming directors alongside established names._
   - _Investors are watching a handful of upcoming companies in the sector._

## Noun

3. The act of coming up; the rising or emergence of something.
   - Simple: The act of coming up or rising.
   - _Geologists studied the upcoming of magma toward the crater._
   - _Sailors watched for the upcoming of the tide before setting out._
4. Comeuppance; the deserved punishment or fate that befalls a person.
   - Simple: The punishment or bad result that someone deserves.
   - _After years of fraud, the swindler received his upcoming in court._
   - _The villain met a fitting upcoming by the story's close._
5. The ongoing activity or process of coming up.
   - Simple: The activity of coming up.
   - _Farmers measured the upcoming of the young shoots over several weeks._
   - _The gradual upcoming of the lake's level worried the residents._

## Verb

6. Present participle and gerund of upcome. *(obsolete)* — present participle and gerund of upcome
   - Simple: Present participle of upcome, an old verb meaning to come up. It is not used this way today.

## Origin

**Meanings 1–4** — Formed from "up" plus "coming".
**Meanings 5–6** — Formed from "upcome" with the suffix "-ing".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/upcoming (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).