happening
happening
Definition
hap·pen·ing (hap′ən iŋ; informally hap′niŋ)
noun
- something that happens; occurrence; incident; event
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- a theatrical performance of unrelated and bizarre or ludicrous actions, often spontaneous and with some participation by the audience
- any event regarded as important, entertaining, newsworthy, etc.
happening
Synonyms
happening
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- event: That is, it springs up upon the happenings of a specific event chosen by the Power of Attorney.
Converse of object
- prohibit: Ideally invested to own a machine prohibit something happening.
- prevent: To prevent this happening we will be blocking SMTP port 25 outgoing on the external Firewall from 7 March 2006.
- stop: You can stop this happening at any time by using the contact us page.
- imagine: Can you imagine this happening in any typical " hotel room " ?
- avoid: To avoid this happening in the UK it seems sensible to have an army.
- see: We can see this happening with several moral issues at the moment.
Adjective modifier
- untoward: Adrienne said, " Simply doing a risk assessment can prevent something untoward happening.
- ghostly: A blind boy goes to the Welsh coast for a holiday with his mother and discovers ghostly happenings at a local derelict mansion.
- strange: The sisters had grown up with these strange happenings.
- spooky: There have been many spooky happenings at his house, which is situated a couple of miles outside of Gloucester City.
- haunted: Would you like the opportunity to experience our haunted happenings?
- unexplained: The Ouija Board - Occasionally we hear about unexplained happenings in the past.
Preposition: by
- chance: The odds against this happening by chance are a million to one.
Noun used with modifier
- something: There is almost never not an event, something happening, all the time, in every film.
- nothing: Apart from the bloody war, there's nothing happening!
- anything: The nearest thing to anything happening is two trains crossing on Charing Cross Railroad Bridge.
- accident: Near the end of the races, when people are blowing out their ass, before long I can see a nasty accident happening!
- stuff: All the passions of your apparent life are just stuff happening.
- chance: In countless other worlds, with countless other chance happenings, countless other species could evolve.
Browse dictionary entries near happening
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