Meaning & use
come into fruition
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Meaning
phraseidiom
To happen or become real after a period of planning or effort.
Grammar: Subject is the plan or idea; no object: the plan came into fruition.
Patterns
- something comes into fruition
After years of work, the museum finally came into fruition.
Her dream of opening a bakery came into fruition last spring.
The merger will not come into fruition without government approval.
Word forms
| third person singular | comes into fruition |
|---|---|
| past tense | came into fruition |
| past participle | come into fruition |
| -ing form | coming into fruition |
Common combinations
- plans come into fruition
- The plans came into fruition in 2020.
- finally come into fruition
- The project has finally come into fruition.
- bring something into fruition
- Donors helped bring the library into fruition.
- never come into fruition
- The idea never came into fruition.
- begin to come into fruition
- Our ideas are beginning to come into fruition.
Synonyms and how they differ
- come to fruition
- Come to fruition is the traditional form and is the same in meaning, though some readers see it as more correct.
- materialize
- Materialize can describe anything that appears or happens, not necessarily after long effort.
- be realized
- Be realized sounds more formal and takes a passive form.
- pan out
- Pan out is informal and means working out well or not, rather than being achieved.
Opposites
Word family
Commonly confused: come into fruition or fruition vs. frugal?
come into fruition vs fruition vs. frugal
Fruition has nothing to do with fruit as a food or with being frugal; it means achieving something planned.
Practice
The airport expansion first proposed in 1998 has finally ___.
Choose one answer.
Come into fruition means a plan became real. Fallen through means the opposite, and gone off or given way do not fit.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “come into fruition”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.