impending

impending

English

Etymology

From impend +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɛndɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ

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.

   • December 7 2021, “Jesse Hassenger”, in AV Club‎:

     Randall and Kate aren’t satirical characters. They’re rational thinkers who unwittingly stumble into a Dr. Strangelove type of situation when they discover mankind’s impending doom, and team up with Dr. Teddy Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan) to report their findings to President Orlean (Meryl Streep).

Synonyms

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

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)pend-‎ (0 c, 32 e)

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 Persian: قریب‌الوقوع‎ (qarib-olvoqu') Plautdietsch: dreiwent Portuguese: iminente (pt) Russian: приближа́ющийся (ru) (približájuščijsja), надвига́ющийся (ru) (nadvigájuščijsja), предстоя́щий (ru) (predstojáščij) Sanskrit: भविष्य (sa) (bhaviṣya) Spanish: inminente (es) Swedish: hotande (sv), förestående (sv), kommande (sv) Ukrainian: навислий (uk) m (navyslyj), той, що наближається (uk) m (toj, ščo nablyžajetʹsja), той, що насувається (uk) m (toj, ščo nasuvajetʹsja) 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 […]