going on

Speech parts

1. going on - Verb

2. going on - Preposition

Meaning

going on

Indicates a time or age in the very near future.
It's going on three o'clock.
"How old are you?" ―"Going on nineteen."

going on

present participle of go on

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

brewing almost nearly continuing ongoing approaching extant advancing happening nowadays proceeding underway close to afoot yapping
Show all synonyms

Antonyms

seizing

Examples

A paranoid man is a man who knows a little about what's going on. William S. Burroughs

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. Ben Hecht

Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it. Ray Charles

If a woman hears that something unusual is going on in heaven, she would find a ladder to go and look. Armenian Proverb

After eating nine hundred rats, the cat is now going on a pilgrimage. Hindi Proverb

Leave well alone! You wont improve matters by going on tinkering. Swahili Proverb

Close letter words and terms

going off deep end going off road going off the tracks going on about going on and on going on foot