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Shortly vs Forthcoming - What's the difference?

shortly | forthcoming |

As an adverb shortly

is in a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly.

As an adjective forthcoming is

approaching or about to take place.

As a noun forthcoming is

something that is yet to come.

shortly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.}}
  • In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in verse than in prose.
  • In an irritable ("short") manner.

    • forthcoming

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (not comparable) Approaching or about to take place.
    • I shall vote in the forthcoming election.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=David Ornstein , title=Blackburn 0 - 4 Man City , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The visitors began to hold a much higher line, passing and moving with greater urgency, and their reward was forthcoming .}}
  • Available when needed.
    • The money was not forthcoming .
  • Considerate and affable; willing to cooperate.
    • I am really a forthcoming person.

    Derived terms

    * forthcomingness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that is yet to come.
  • * 1831 , Archibald Mackerrell, An Apology for the Gift of Tongues and Interpretation
    • 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.

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