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up-and-coming

up-and-coming adjective: emerging; aspiring; beginning to attract attention or critical acclaim.

Adjective

up-and-coming (comparative more up-and-coming, superlative most up-and-coming)

  1. (idiomatic) Emerging; aspiring; beginning to attract attention or critical acclaim.
    • The theater likes to feature up-and-coming singers and comedians.

up-and-coming meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

up-and-coming in Tamil

படுவிழிப்பான, படுமுனைப்பான, படுமுயற்சி வாய்ந்த

up-and-coming in Malayalam

budding, promising, rising
പടിപടിയായിവളരുന്ന, വളർന്നുവരുന്ന, ഭാവിവാഗ്ദാനമായ, ശുഭോദർക്കമായ, ഉയർന്നുവരുന്ന, ഉദിച്ചുയരുന്ന

up-and-coming in Kannada

ಉದಯೋನ್ಮುಖ, ಯಶಸ್ವಿಯಾಗುತ್ತಿರುವ, ಬೆಳಕಿಗೆ ಬರುತ್ತಿರುವ

Forms of up-and-coming

comparativemore up-and-coming
superlativemost up-and-coming
alternative formup and coming

Questions about up-and-coming

What does up-and-coming mean?
Up-and-coming means emerging; aspiring; beginning to attract attention or critical acclaim.
What is up-and-coming in Tamil?
Up-and-coming in Tamil is படுவிழிப்பான, படுமுனைப்பான, படுமுயற்சி வாய்ந்த. See Up-and-coming meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is up-and-coming?
Up-and-coming is an adjective.

Words near up-and-coming in the dictionary

  1. up your nose with a rubber hose
  2. up yours
  3. up-
  4. up-and-comer
  5. up-and-comers
  6. up-and-coming
  7. up-and-comingness
  8. up-and-down
  9. up-and-down straight draw
  10. up-and-down straight draws
  11. up-and-downness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: up-and-coming (page history and authors); up-and-coming (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); up-and-coming (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); up-and-coming (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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