going on
Currently taking place
Going on describes something that is happening or in progress: What's going on here?
There's a lot going on in my life right now.
It also means approaching or nearly a certain age or time: She's going on forty, It's going on midnight.
To go on about something is to talk at length, often tediously.
Presently taking place
- transpiringComing to pass
- unfoldingGradually becoming apparent
- taking placeCurrently in progress
- eventA notable occurrence
incident · situation · circumstance · episode · development · emergence · arising · onset
Long-winded and unfocused
- droningSustained monotonous sound
- lecturingGiving an instructive talk
- complainingExpressing discontent verbally
- ventingReleasing emotion verbally
harping · nagging · preaching · monologuing · tirade · diatribe · harangue · soapbox
Continuing through difficulty
- carrying onMaintaining activity despite obstacles
- proceedingAct of going forward
- lastingContinuing through time
- enduringPersisting through time
maintaining · sustaining · progressing · advancing · moving forward · keeping up · pushing ahead · momentum
- maturingDeveloping toward completion
- grayingLosing color with age
- wrinklingForming small folds
- senescenceGradual functional decline with age
declining · fading · weathering · wisdom · experience · retirement · senior · elderly
occurring
Presently taking place
- transpiringComing to pass
- unfoldingGradually becoming apparent
- taking placeCurrently in progress
event · incident · situation · circumstance · episode · development · emergence · arising · onset · commencement
rambling
Long-winded and unfocused
- droningSustained monotonous sound
- lecturingGiving an instructive talk
- complainingExpressing discontent verbally
venting · harping · nagging · preaching · monologuing · tirade · diatribe · harangue · soapbox · belaboring
persisting
Continuing through difficulty
- carrying onMaintaining activity despite obstacles
- proceedingAct of going forward
- lastingContinuing through time
enduring · maintaining · sustaining · progressing · advancing · moving forward · keeping up · pushing ahead · momentum · headway
getting older
senescence · declining · fading · weathering · wisdom · experience · retirement · senior · elderly · life stage
- excessive talkingchatter, chattering, babbling, blather, prattle
- speechmakingorating, declaiming, speechifying, sermonizing, preaching
- approximationsabout, approximately, around, roughly, almost
- frettingworrying, fussing, fretting, stewing, hand-wringing
going onstopping
Ceasing to continue
ending · ceasing · finishing · halting · wrapping up
going oninactive
Not currently functioning
dormant · absent · not happening · all quiet · uneventful
gone, going, go on, outgoing, ongoing, bygone, undergoing, foregoing, begone