up-and-coming
- adjective
- /ˌʌp ənd ˈkʌmɪŋ/
- New York magazine says this is the new up-and-coming neighbourhood.
Actor Alec Baldwin was holding the gun that killed this up and coming filmmaker.
- Actor Alec Baldwin was holding the gun that killed this up and coming filmmaker.
- We set an example for the up and coming generation of Chef.
- So she ends up being viewed as, as, you know, a really up and coming, you know, thinker.
- But the two areas I feel really are things that are up and coming,
- Are there are there any other more up and coming exciting investment opportunities?
- And the example I would give is what happened with that other up and coming start up AI, start up Inflection.
- Jake Lacy, he was, he's kind of on the up and coming actors list that I put together in my room.
Examples
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Now it's time to give some well-deserved credit to the most impressive up-and-coming players of the year:
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As an up-and-coming chef, she is gaining recognition for her innovative recipes.
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So is there a new wave up and coming that you that you see?
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You know, there was room for this new up and coming, you know, wave of British metal.
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Please go check out their up and coming events now and book yourself night to remember.
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Speaking of, if you could give any advice to any up and coming young black actors, what would your advice be?
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We set an example for the up and coming generation of Chef.
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So any advice for up and coming musicians?
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Our story begins, as these stories often do, with a young, up-and-coming politician.
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Langwiser was a young up-and-coming lawyer in the DA's office.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
Showing signs of future success
Beginning to exist and showing signs of future growth
Starting to appear or become important
Starting to appear and become important
Beginning to show promise in a job or activity
Becoming more important or successful, often about people
Antonyms
How Promising
Surface Forms
Etymology
Up-and-coming joins up 'rising' and coming 'moving toward' to make a picture of someone 'coming up' the stairs toward success. So up-and-coming describes a person or thing that is likely to become successful soon.