IMPENDING meaning: About to happen very soon

We found 22 dictionaries that define the word impending:

General (21 matching dictionaries)

impending: Merriam-Webster.com
impending: Collins English Dictionary
impending: Vocabulary.com
Impending, impending: Wordnik
impending: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
impending: Wiktionary
impending: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
impending: Infoplease Dictionary
Impending, impending: Dictionary.com
impending: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Impending: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
impending: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
impending: Rhymezone
impending: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
impending: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
impending: Free Dictionary
impending: Mnemonic Dictionary
impending: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
impending: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)

impending: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective: Approaching; drawing near; about to happen or expected to happen.
▸ noun: Something that impends or threatens; an expected event.

Opposite:

imminent, distant, remote, far-off

Types:

apocalypse, apotheosis, more...

Phrases:

Impending Death, Sense of impending doom, Impending Doom, a feeling of impending doom, sign of impending doom, more...

Colors:

charcoal, slate gray, midnight blue, gunmetal, ash gray, steel blue, onyx

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