What does coming mean?
Coming means present participle and gerund of come.
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/ˈkʌmɪŋ/ · verb
present participle and gerund of come.
The/this Sunday coming / coming Sunday.
But he found it strange to think […] of all these little things that cluster round the comings, and the stayings, and the goings, that he would know nothing of them, nothing of what they had been, as long as he lived, […]
We expect great things from you this coming year.
She will have two or three paintings in the coming exhibition.
Oh! if you wish that happiness / your coming days and years may bless,
Ergonomic wallets are the coming thing.
How coming to the poet every muse!
That he had been so affectionate a husband, was no ill argument to the coming dowager, that he might prove as kind to her.
Use coming when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Coming means present participle and gerund of come.
Common synonyms include unborn, approach, forthcoming, orgasm.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The/this Sunday coming / coming Sunday.
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