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impendingadjective being soon to appear or take placean impending celebration of the 100th anniversary of the college's founding approaching, coming, forthcoming, imminent, nearing, oncoming, pending, proximate, upcoming futureanticipated, awaited, expected, foreseen, predicted at hand, on hand, on tap, to come late, recent bygone, erstwhile, foregone, former, old, onetime, other, past, quondam, sometime, whilom giving signs of immediate occurrencean aura of impending doom hung over the city imminent, looming, pending, threatening approaching, coming, forthcoming, future, near, nearing, oncoming, upcomingbrewing, gatheringlikely, possible, probableinevitable, unavoidableapocalyptic(also apocalyptical), lowering, menacing, ominous, portentousanticipated, awaited, expected, foreseen, predicted around the corner distant, far-off, remoteeventual, ultimatebygone, former, pastlate, recent to be about to happenfor confirmed pessimists some disaster always seems to be impending brewing, looming advancing, approaching, closing in, drawing on, gathering, nearinghanging, hovering, lowering(also louring), menacing, overhanging, threatening abating, declining, de-escalating, diminishing, disappearing, dwindling, dying down, ebbing, fading, falling, lessening, letting up, lowering, moderating, receding, relenting, remitting, shrinking, subsiding, tapering, tapering off, vanishing, waningfalling back, passing, receding, retreating, withdrawing in 1616 |