impending
Meaning of impending
adjective
- (of an event regarded as threatening or significant) about to happen; forthcoming.
the author had returned to his country ahead of the impending war
a fortune teller with dire warnings about impending doom
my impending departure
- (of an event regarded as threatening or significant) be about to happen.
it seemed certain that some great trial of strength impended between the opponents
the loss of liberty impends as the result of fatal indiscretion
late 16th century: from Latin impendere, from in- ‘towards, upon’ + pendere ‘hang’.
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Hyphenation of impending
im-pend-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- impending is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
impending synonyms
Meaning at hand:
Meaning only a short distance away or apart in space or time:
Meaning come near to; approach:
Meaning almost achieve or do:
Meaning coming nearer in distance or time:
Meaning due to happen or just beginning:
Meaning about to happen or appear:
Meaning about to happen; forthcoming:
Meaning the activity or business of producing beer:
Meaning (of an event regarded as threatening) seem about to happen:
Meaning having a hostile or deliberately frightening quality or manner:
Meaning suggesting the presence of danger; threatening:
Translation of impending
- Spanish: próximo, inminente
- French: prochain, imminent
- German: bevorstehend
- Italian: prossimo, imminente
Words that rhyme with impending
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