COMING OFF Synonyms: 81 Similar and Opposite Words

coming off

verb

present participle of come off

as in happening

to take place couldn't believe that the wedding would actually come off—they've been "just dating" for years

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as in succeeding

to turn out as planned or desired the attempted revival of the city's downtown never really came off, and even more stores eventually closed

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Recent Examples of coming off Warm, moist air moving north fuels storms coming off the California coast. — Wufei Yu, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026 The ‘Noles are coming off a 44-0 shellacking of a good Spruce Creek team. — Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026 Mike Macdonald’s squad is coming off back-to-back losses to the Niners and Broncos, their first consecutive defeats since December 2024. — Andy Scholes, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026 Worthy is coming off back-to-back games with at least 70 receiving yards. — Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2026 Miami is coming off one of its best rushing performances of the season. — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026 Tennessee is coming off a 26-3 home loss to what was a winless Houston Texans team that managed to sack Ward four times. — Mark Harris Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026 But coming off the back of that, there was all of this legislation that was pretty awful and generally, there were a lot of homophobic attitudes, still quite extreme, even as late as the 1990s. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2026 Indeed, Boone is coming off perhaps his finest regular season, leading the Yankees to a 93-68 record despite all of the adversity. — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for coming off

Verb

Why young drinkers are swapping bars for saunas The shift is happening alongside a broader pullback from alcohol.

— Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2026
Rob and Ian must have gone home wondering what on earth was happening.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of happening

Verb

While most have never been rolled out to the public, one low-tech micro-transit project has been quietly succeeding in filing in some public transportation gaps and getting people around their neighborhoods — for free.

— Sofia Zarran, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
Saunders was there for one season, succeeding Mike Hancock, who resigned while citing anxiety, grief and depression in the wake of a 2024 school shooting that left two students and two educators dead.

— Caitlyn Stroh-Page, AJC.com, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of succeeding

Verb

Black’s wife, who had summoned Bell, was concerned that her husband was coming down with a cold.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026
There is a lot of money in the market, but some of it appears to be receding and the number of commissions is coming down.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of coming down

Verb

My skin would tingle whenever Iverson got close to that mic and whispered along its neck, as if his breath were actually going over my neck too.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026
Police said Textor kept this scheme going over the course of approximately five years.

— Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of going over

Verb

About 4,400 workers are prohibited from going on strike because they are deemed essential to public health and safety.

— Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 20 Oct. 2026
And the other film is about a Jordanian farmer and the water loss in Jordan, because there’s a whole political situation going on with water being stolen by Israel.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of going on

Verb

Maria Dolores Roehling’s 9-year-old son was speeding on his e-motorcycle capable of going faster than 47 mph when he was hit by a pickup truck, prosecutors said.

— Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
Other fraternity members blocked Jane Doe’s friend from going upstairs to look for her, according to the lawsuit.

— Lila Hempel-Edgers, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of going

Verb

Top Commanders wideout Terry McLaurin had to be carted off the field in the first half with an apparent left knee injury after going down without contact.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026
The sun going down over Coleman Pond, which sits at the back of Katz’s Lincolnville property.

— Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of going down

Verb

Yen is now writing a fresh draft and working out the film’s visual style.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
In a recent Instagram post, the 61-year-old supermodel shared her gym routine with her many followers, and shared working out has helped her in more ways than one.

— Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026