impending

English

Etymology

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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin impendō (“to overhang”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɛndɪŋ/

Adjective

impending (not comparable)

1. Approaching; drawing near; about to happen or expected to happen.

   I have no time right now because of an impending paper submission deadline.

Synonyms

• imminent, in the offing, proximate; see also Thesaurus:impending

Translations

about to happen

• Bulgarian: предстоящ (bg) (predstojašt)
• Czech: blížící se
• Dutch: nakend (nl)
• Esperanto: antaŭstaranta
• French: imminent (fr)
• German: bevorstehend (de)
• Maori: raraka (refers to misfortune), whano
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• Persian: قریب‌الوقوع (qarib-olvoqu')
• Portuguese: iminente (pt)
• Russian: приближа́ющийся (ru) (približájuščijsja), надвига́ющийся (ru) (nadvigájuščijsja), предстоя́щий (ru) (predstojáščij)
• Spanish: inminente (es)
• Swedish: hotande (sv), förestående (sv), kommande (sv)
• Yiddish: באַלדיק (baldik)

Verb

impending

1. present participle of impend

   The hurricane is impending.

Noun

impending (plural impendings)

1. Something that impends or threatens; an expected event.
   • 1934, Arabella Kenealy, The Human Gyroscope:

     Speed of locomotion and staying power in horse and others; the sense of smell in dog and in most other creatures (a far subtler and more analytical faculty than is man's mere perception of odour). Even an uncanny supra-natural sense of natural impendings, catastrophe, earthquake and flood, lacking in man, is found in simpler creatures.

   • 1994, Steve Garvey, quoted in 2000, Nicholas Barnes, ‎Ainin H. Garvey, The Lost Writings of Steve Garvey (page 23)

     Although I do think about death quite regularly, my intense fear of lesser impendings has taught me that the only way I will survive it is to remain objective […]