work in progress
Not done yet
A work in progress is something still being developed or improved, not yet complete.
The phrase appears in creative and professional contexts: The novel is a work in progress, Consider the proposal a work in progress.
People use it self-deprecatingly about personal growth: I'm a work in progress.
Often abbreviated WIP.
First functional specimen
- sketchHasty informal drawing
- draftPreliminary version of text
- conceptAbstract mental construct
- designPurposeful creative planning
composition · brainchild · manuscript · canvas · sculpture · artwork · novel · screenplay
Elegance of manner
- enhancementIncrease in quality
- revisionAltering to improve
- polishingSmoothing by friction
- optimizationMaximizing efficiency or performance
upgrade · iteration · fine-tuning · tweaking · adjustment · reworking · overhaul · modernization
Planned, effortful task
- buildCreate a structure
- constructionProcess of building something
- codingWriting software instructions
- engineeringDesigning functional systems scientifically
fabrication · assembly · implementation · production · undertaking · venture · initiative · enterprise
Not yet complete
- draftPreliminary version of text
- roughUneven in surface
- partialFavoring one side
- fragmentaryConsisting of incomplete parts
preliminary · tentative · undeveloped · unpolished · nascent · embryonic · incipient · formative
Going on without stopping
- underwayCurrently in progress
- activeIn operation now
- in-flightDuring air travel
- evolvingChanging gradually over time
developing · unfolding · advancing · proceeding · moving forward · coming along · taking shape · brewing
prototype
First functional specimen
design · composition · brainchild · manuscript · canvas · sculpture · artwork · novel · screenplay · album
refinement
Elegance of manner
- enhancementIncrease in quality
- revisionAltering to improve
- polishingSmoothing by friction
optimization · upgrade · iteration · fine-tuning · tweaking · adjustment · reworking · overhaul · modernization · retooling
project
Planned, effortful task
- buildCreate a structure
- constructionProcess of building something
- codingWriting software instructions
engineering · fabrication · assembly · implementation · production · undertaking · venture · initiative · enterprise · rollout
unfinished
Not yet complete
fragmentary · preliminary · tentative · undeveloped · unpolished · nascent · embryonic · incipient · formative · raw
continuing
Going on without stopping
evolving · developing · unfolding · advancing · proceeding · moving forward · coming along · taking shape · brewing · gestating
- operationsoperation, operations, military operation, joint operation, workflow
- incompleteincomplete, unfinished, partial, fragmentary, half-done
- in progressunderway, pending, ongoing, active, unfinished
- Incomplete thingsdraft, sketch, outline, stub, fragment
- progresspromotion, raise, ongoing, advancement, improvement
- software developmentcoding, programming, bug, debug, debugging
work in progressfinished product
Completed manufactured good
final version · done deal · finished article · masterpiece · final cut
work, progress, works, worked, working, worker, workers, workable, workings