Dictionary Definition
forthcoming adj
1 at ease in talking to others [syn: extroverted, outgoing]
2 of the relatively near future; "the approaching
election"; "this coming Thursday"; "the forthcoming holidays"; "the
upcoming spring fashions" [syn: approaching, coming(a),
upcoming]
3 available when required or as promised;
"federal funds were not forthcoming"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
- Approaching or
about to take place.
- I shall vote in the forthcoming election.
- Available when
needed.
- The money was not forthcoming.
- Considerate and
affable; willing to cooperate.
- I am really a forthcoming person.
Translations
Available
- Finnish: saatavilla, ulottuvilla
- ttbc Norwegian: innkommende
Considerate
- Finnish: avomielinen, avoin
- Norwegian: imøtekommende
Derived terms
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
about to be, access, accessible, accession, advance, advancing, advent, affable, afflux, affluxion, already in sight,
amiable, anticipated, apparition, appearance, appearing, approach, approaching, appropinquation,
approximate,
approximation,
approximative,
appulse, arising, at hand, attracted to,
avatar, awaited, brewing, chatty, close, close at hand, close by,
coming, coming into
being, coming near, coming toward, coming-forth, communicative, departure, desired, destinal, destined, determined, disclosure, drawn to,
egress, egression, emanating, emanative, emanent, emergence, emergent, emerging, epiphany, eventual, exit, exodus, expansive, expected, exposure, extraction, extrapolated, fatal, fated, fatidic, flowing toward,
foreseen, free, friendly, future, futuristic, futurity, gathering, going on, going
out, going to happen, hereafter, hoped-for, immediate, immediate future,
imminence, imminent, impendence, impendency, impendent, impending, in danger imminent,
in embryo, in hand, in preparation, in process, in production, in
progress, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the cards, in the
offing, in the oven, in the wind, in the works, in view, incarnation, informative, instant, issuance, issuing, later, loom, looming, lowering, lurking, manifestation, materialization,
materializing,
menacing, near, near at hand, near future,
nearing, nearness, occurrence, on stream, on the
anvil, on the fire, on the horizon, on the way, oncoming, open, opening, outcome, outcoming, outgo, outgoing, overhanging, pending, planned, plotted, predicted, preparing, presentation, probable, projected, prophesied, prospective, proximate, proximation, realization, revealing, revelation, rise, rising, showing, showing forth, sociable, surfacing, talkative, that will be,
theophany, threatening, to come, to-be,
transeunt, transient, ultimate, under construction,
under revision, under way, unfolding, unfoldment, unreserved, upcoming, waiting