Ongoing and Stopping

Ongoing

Ongoing adjective - Being in progress or development.

Stopping is an antonym for ongoing in continuous topic.

Stopping

Stopping noun - Fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members.

Ongoing is an antonym for stopping.

Nearby Words: stop, stopped, stoppage, stopper, stopover

Both words in one sentence

  • Video Game / Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Artifact Title: The game is more about resolving the ongoing plot than stopping a specific Metal Gear this time around.
  • Comicbook / I, Vampire The characters are all younger and better looking in the new version, and whereas the original was intended as a miniseries, the reboot is intended to be an ongoing book.Tropes: Bat Family Crossover: Batman and the members of Justice League Dark all get involved with stopping Mary's army.
  • The "Second Korean War".note Very technically, it'd be the same Korean War as the one from 1950-53, as technically that war is still ongoing; the war stopping in 1953 was via an armistice that has never been formalized into an actual treaty.
    Source: Possible War
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Stopping and Ongoing. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/ongoing/stopping
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