upcoming

English

Etymology 1

From up +‎ coming.

Adjective

upcoming (not comparable)

1. Happening or appearing in the relatively near future.

   We are ready for whatever is upcoming.

   The Federal budget lays out government spending for the upcoming budget year.

   • 2025 April 21, Jeff McMurray, “Trump’s transportation officials buck a long-held practice of using ‘road diets’ to slow speeders”, in AP News‎^[1]:

     Federal transportation officials once heralded road diets for cutting crashes by 19% to 47%, but criteria for an upcoming round of road safety grants say projects aimed at “reducing lane capacity” should be considered “less favorably,” the administration said.

2. Eggcorn of up-and-coming.
   • 1967 August, “U.S. Karate Championships”, in Black Belt, Active Interest Media, →ISSN, page 51:

     The finals for the men's black belt championship saw Moon, an old pro, face an upcoming young rookie, Johnny Wooley.

Related terms

• come up
• forthcoming
• next
• oncoming

Translations

of the relatively near future — see also approaching

• Armenian: առաջիկա (hy) (aṙaǰika)
• Bulgarian: настъпващ (bg) (nastǎpvašt), предстоящ (bg) (predstojašt)
• Czech: nadcházející (cs)
• Esperanto: venonta
• Finnish: tuleva (fi)
• French: à venir (fr), prochain (fr)
• Galician: vindeiro m, próximo (gl)
• German: kommend (de)
• Greek: επέρχομαι (el) (epérchomai)
• Indonesian: segera (id)
• Italian: prossimo (it), imminente (it)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: лишыл (ĺišyl)

• Polish: nadchodzący
• Portuguese: próximo (pt) m, seguinte (pt) m or f, a seguir (pt) m or f
• Russian: предстоя́щий (ru) (predstojáščij), наступа́ющий (ru) (nastupájuščij)
• Serbo-Croatian: nadolazeći
• Spanish: próximo (es), venidero (es), venturo
• Swedish: kommande (sv)
• Turkish: gelecek olan, gelen (tr), olmak üzere olan, yaklaşan

See also

• up-and-coming

Noun

upcoming (plural upcomings)

1. The act of coming up.
2. Comeuppance; deserts.

Etymology 2

From upcome +‎ -ing.

Noun

upcoming (plural upcomings)

1. The activity of to upcome.

Verb

upcoming

1. present participle and gerund of upcome

See also

• come
• coming
• downcoming
• up
• up-and-coming
• upcome
• upcomer
• upping

Anagrams

• coming up