Usually means: About to happen very soon.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. impending: Merriam-Webster
  2. impending: Collins English Dictionary
  3. impending: Vocabulary.com
  4. Impending, impending: Wordnik
  5. impending: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. impending: Wiktionary
  7. impending: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. impending: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Impending, impending: Dictionary.com
  10. impending: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Impending: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. impending: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. impending: Rhymezone
  14. impending: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. impending: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. impending: FreeDictionary.org
  17. impending: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. impending: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. impending: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. impending: Legal dictionary

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

Similar:
imminent, close at hand, close, at hand, pending, proximate, forthcoming, coming, impendent, upcoming, more...

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...

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Similar:
imminent, close at hand, close, at hand, pending, proximate, forthcoming, coming, impendent, upcoming, more...

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, giving notice of impending danger, an impending change, gives notice of impending problems, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     slate gray,     stormy blue,     deep purple,     midnight blue, more...



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