forthcoming

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: forth=com=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

forthcoming, a. 

•  Ready or about to appear; making appearance.  [1913 Webster]
•  Candid; frank; not withholding relevant information; cooperative in providing information.  [PJC]
•  Having an agreeable and sociable personality; friendly.  [PJC]
•  Available or ready at the time required; as, payment will be forthcoming on receipt of the goods.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

forthcoming, attrib. adj.
1 a about or likely to appear or become available. b approaching.
2 produced when wanted (no reply was forthcoming).
3 (of a person) informative, responsive.

Derivative

forthcomingness n.

THESAURUS

forthcoming

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

ROGET THESAURUS

forthcoming

Preparation

N preparation, providing, provision, providence, anticipation, precaution, preconcertation, predisposition, forecast, rehearsal, note of preparation, arrangement, clearance, adjustment, tuning, equipment, outfit, accouterment, armament, array, ripening, maturation, evolution, elaboration, concoction, digestion, gestation, batching, incubation, sitting, groundwork, first stone, cradle, stepping-stone, foundation, scaffold, scaffolding, echafaudage, training, inurement, novitiate, cooking, cookery, brewing, culinary art, tilling, plowing sowing, semination, cultivation, preparedness, readiness, ripeness, mellowness, maturity, un impromptu fait a loisir, preparer, trainer, pioneer, trailblazer, avant-courrier, avant-coureur, voortrekker, sappers and miners, pavior, navvy, packer, stevedore, warming pan, preparing, in preparation, in course of preparation, in agitation, in embryo, in hand, in train, afoot, afloat, on foot, on the stocks, on the anvil, under consideration, brewing, batching, forthcoming, brooding, in store for, in reserve, precautionary, provident, preparative, preparatory, provisional, inchoate, under revision, preliminary, prepared, in readiness, ready, ready to one's band, ready made, ready cut and dried: made to one's hand, handy, on the table, in gear, in working order, in working gear, snug, in practice, ripe, mature, mellow, pukka, practiced, labored, elaborate, highly-wrought, smelling of the lamp, worked up, in full feather, in best bib and tucker, in harness, at harness, in the saddle, in arms, in battle array, in war paint, up in arms, armed at all points, armed to the teeth, armed cap a pie, sword in hand, booted and spurred, in utrumque paratus, semper paratus, on the alert, at one's post, in preparation, in anticipation of, against, for, abroach, a bove majori discit arare minor, looking before and after, si vis pacem para bellum.

Destiny

N destiny, future existence, post existence, hereafter, future state, next world, world to come, after life, futurity, everlasting life, everlasting death, life beyond the grave, world beyond the grave, prospect, impending, destined, about to be, happen, coming, in store, to come, going to happen, instant, at hand, near, near, close at hand, over hanging, hanging over one's head, imminent, brewing, preparing, forthcoming, int he wind, on the cards, in reserve, that will, is to be, in prospect, looming in the distance, horizon, future, unborn, in embryo, int he womb of time, futurity, pregnant, in time, the long run, all in good time, eventually, whatever may happen, as chance would have it.