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being soon to appear or take place
- an impending celebration of the 100th anniversary of the college's founding
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2
giving signs of immediate occurrence
- an aura of impending doom hung over the city
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impending
verb
present participle of impend
Synonyms & Antonyms of impending (Entry 2 of 2)
to be about to happen
- for confirmed pessimists some disaster always seems to be impending
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- hanging,
- hovering,
- lowering
- (also louring),
- menacing,
- overhanging,
- threatening
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“Impending.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impending. Accessed 23 Jul. 2021.
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The first known use of impending was in 1616
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