forthcoming

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   available when required or as promised

   federal funds were not forthcoming

2. 2
   adj

   Approaching or about to take place.

   I shall vote in the forthcoming election.

3. 3
   adj

   Available when needed; in place, ready.

   The money was not forthcoming.

4. 4
   adj

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

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

5. 5
   noun

   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.

6. 6
   adj

   of the relatively near future

7. 7
   adj

   at ease in talking to others

8. 8
   noun

   An act of coming forth.

Etymology

The adjective is derived from forth (“forwards”) + coming (“approaching (adjective)”); or from Middle English forth commyng, *forthcominge, present participle of forth-comen (“to come forth; to appear, issue”), from Old English forþcuman (“to come forth, come forward”) (present participle *forþcumende), from forþ- (“forth; forward”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“before, in front; first”)) + cuman (“to come”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to step”)). Compare Dutch voortkomend (“coming forth, originating from (verb)”), German fortkommend (“getting away; progressing…