Talk:impending

I'm not a native English speaker but I have this vague idea that the word impending has something rather gloomy and threatening about it, is it so? 88.148.214.22 20:44, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Erm, it can in some cases. Think, for example, of a sentence something like this:

And so, your impending doom has been prophesied. 50 Xylophone Players talk 20:55, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

What is impending is imminent (in the literal sense of the word, “hanging over one’s head”) and harmful; the slipshod extension threatens to deprive us of a useful word. --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:14, 23 August 2021 (UTC)