approaching

Adjective

• of the relatively near future
  • the approaching election
    
  • this coming Thursday
    
  • the forthcoming holidays
    
  • the upcoming spring fashions
    

Noun

• the act of drawing spatially closer to something
  • the hunter's approach scattered the geese
    

• the temporal property of becoming nearer in time
  • the approach of winter
    

• the event of one object coming closer to another

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  coming(a) , forthcoming , upcoming , approach , coming