impending en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /ɪmˈpɛndɪŋ/
Etymology
From impend + -ing.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Approaching; drawing near; about to happen or expected to happen.
Randall and Kate aren’t satirical characters. They’re rational thinkers who unwittingly stumble into a Dr. Strangelove type of situation when they discover mankind’s impending doom, and team up with Dr. Teddy Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan) to report their findings to President Orlean (Meryl Streep).
2021 December 7, Jesse Hassenger, “Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence cope with disaster in the despairing satire Don’t Look Up”, in AV Club:"Keep off Conductor Rails" said red-painted notices at the platform ends, for third-rails were laid in many places even where electric trains never normally ran, and there had been many rumours of impending electrification of the Wirral, as a natural extension of the Mersey system, a quarter of a century before the change was actually made.
1954 March, W. A. Tuplin, “Recollections of the Wirral Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 167:I have no time right now because of an impending paper submission deadline.
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Relateds
looming · approaching · brewing · soon
Synonyms
instant · impending · toward · proximate · around the corner · in the offing · impendent · imminent · proximate · in the wind · to come · on the boil · pending · at hand · upcoming · imminent · forthcoming · in the offing
Translations (26)
pt iminente (about to happen) · ca imminent (about to happen) · fr imminent (about to happen) · yi באַלדיק (about to happen) · sv hotande (about to happen) · cs blížící se (about to happen) · uk той, що насувається (about to happen) · fa قریبالوقوع (about to happen) · nl nakend (about to happen) · eo antaŭstaranta (about to happen) · uk той, що наближається (about to happen) · bg предстоящ (about to happen) · es impendedor (about to happen) · sv kommande (about to happen) · de bevorstehend (about to happen) · pdt dreiwent (about to happen) · mi raraka (about to happen) · gl inminente (about to happen) · ru приближа́ющийся (about to happen) · ru предстоя́щий (about to happen) · sa भविष्य (about to happen) · sv förestående (about to happen) · es impendiente (about to happen) · mi whano (about to happen) · ru надвига́ющийся (about to happen) · uk навислий (about to happen)