States and conditions

Synonyms for coming

Synonyms for coming: approaching and approach. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · adjective

The 2 synonyms for coming

Interchangeable with coming in this sense

Audited under coming's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one coming carries in that sense.

approachingadjective, in the sense "of the relatively near future"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name coming as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

approachapproach is a noun in the sense "the act of drawing spatially closer to something"

The first group is filed under coming's own sense. The second reaches coming from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.

The senseadjectiveTier 1, FoothillsStates and conditions

of the relatively near future

This coming Thursday.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

approaching

Same sentence, swapped: This approaching Thursday.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

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Where coming turns up in the game

coming is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play coming

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so coming reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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