Forthcoming vs Awaited - What's the difference?
forthcoming | awaited |
(not comparable) Approaching or about to take place.
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Available when needed.
Considerate and affable; willing to cooperate.
Something that is yet to come.
* 1831 , Archibald Mackerrell, An Apology for the Gift of Tongues and Interpretation
(await)
(formal) To wait for.
* Milton
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, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.}}
To expect.
To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for.
* 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,
* Milton
To wait on, serve or attend.
To watch, observe.
To wait (on or upon).
To wait; to stay in waiting.
(label) A waiting for; ambush.
(label) Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation.
*, Book VII:
*:Also, madame, syte you well that there be many men spekith of oure love in this courte, and have you and me gretely in awayte , as thes Sir Aggravayne and Sir Mordred.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , VI.6:
*:For all that night, the whyles the Prince did rest […] He watcht in close awayt with weapons prest […].
As an adjective forthcoming
is (not comparable) approaching or about to take place.As a noun forthcoming
is something that is yet to come.As a verb awaited is
(await).forthcoming
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I shall vote in the forthcoming election.
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- The money was not forthcoming .
- I am really a forthcoming person.
Derived terms
* forthcomingnessNoun
(en noun)- 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.
Anagrams
*awaited
English
Verb
(head)await
English
Verb
(en verb)- Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat, / Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night.
- Standing foursquare in the heart of the town, at the intersection of the two main streets, a "jog" at each street corner left around the market-house a little public square, which at this hour was well occupied by carts and wagons from the country and empty drays awaiting hire.
- O Eve, some farther change awaits us nigh.
