forthcoming

comparative more forthcoming · superlative most forthcoming

1. not comparableApproaching or about to take place.

   I shall vote in the forthcoming election.

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   The visitors began to hold a much higher line, passing and moving with greater urgency, and their reward was forthcoming.

   2011 October 1, David Ornstein, “Blackburn 0 – 4 Man City”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2019

   Never one to waste an opportunity, he says now: "The low points? You can read about them in my forthcoming book! It's at the printers now.

   2021 November 3, Adrian Shooter talks to Paul Clifton, “A lifetime of railway achievements”, in RAIL, number 943, page 34

   Synonyms: imminent, impending, around the corner, at hand, imminent, impendent, impending, in the offing

2. Available when needed; in place, ready.

   The money was not forthcoming.

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   Unfortunately, sufficient public support has not been forthcoming, and the trains were withdrawn from September 15.

   1956 October, “Notes and News: Nottingham Local Service Withdrawn”, in Railway Magazine, page 710

   This may perhaps throw some light on the fact that in democratic countries defending themselves against aggression, sufficient support may be forthcoming for the necessary far-reaching measures (which may even take on the character of holistic planning) without suppression of public criticism, while in countries preparing for an attack or waging an aggressive war, public criticism as a rule must be suppressed, in order that public support may be mobilized by presenting aggression as defence.

   1957, Karl Popper, chapter 24, in The Poverty of Historicism, FIRST HARPER TORCH BOOK edition, page 92

   Antonyms: unforthcoming

3. Willing to co-operate or provide information; candid, frank, responsive.

   Once I explained why I needed to know, she was really forthcoming.

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   So the lawyer talks to him, and tries to get the details of the case, but the guy's not really forthcoming, you know, he won't say exactly where he lives, won't give any names, and the lawyer is thinking something's funny, but still there's real panic [...]

   1991, David Michael Kaplan, Skating in the Dark, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 145

   Antonyms: incommunicative

plural forthcomings

1. An act of coming forth.
2. Something that is yet to come.

   The reader, has had presented to him things not belonging to time or mortality, but awful realities issuing out from eternity, the audible forthcomings of a present living God.

   1831, Archibald Mackerrell, “Appendix”, in An Apology for the Gift of Tongues and Interpretation, at Present Manifested in the Church of Christ […] and the Words of a Vision of Prophecy Given to the Church in A.D. 1830, Greenock, Renfrewshire: W. Johnston, →OCLC, page 22

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of forthcome