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up and coming

up and coming is the alternative form of up-and-coming.

Meaning of up-and-coming

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.

Forms of up and coming

comparativemore up and coming
superlativemost up and coming

Questions about up and coming

What is up and coming the alternative form of?
Up and coming is the alternative form of up-and-coming.

Words near up and coming in the dictionary

  1. up and
  2. up and about
  3. up and around
  4. up and at 'em
  5. up and away
  6. up and coming
  7. up and disappear
  8. up and disappeared
  9. up and disappearing
  10. up and disappears
  11. up and down

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Adapted from Wiktionary: up and coming (page history and authors); up-and-coming (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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