Synonyms for Impending:

• adj.

  •approaching (adjective)
  • expected,
  • proximate,
  • moving closer,
  • nearby.
  •close (adjective)
  • nigh,
  • hard by,
  • give or take a little,
  • across the street,
  • near-at-hand,
  • in spitting distance,
  • under one's nose,
  • nearly,
  • in the ball park.
  •coming (adjective)
  • sub-sequent,
  • pursuing,
  • ordained,
  • most progressing,
  • most preparing,
  • almost one,
  • more docking,
  • more preparing,
  • most docking,
  • de serving,
  • pre-destined,
  • fore-seen,
  • pre paring,
  • almost on one,
  • in offing,
  • more advancing,
  • most converging,
  • more predestined,
  • up and coming,
  • sub sequent,
  • oncoming,
  • pre destined,
  • pre-paring,
  • fore seen,
  • de-serving,
  • most advancing,
  • in wind,
  • more converging,
  • up-and-coming,
  • more progressing,
  • gaining up on,
  • most predestined.
  •dangerous (adjective)
  • parlous,
  • dangersome,
  • touch and go,
  • on collision course,
  • risky,
  • Jeopardous,
  • shaky.
  •destined (adjective)
  • in cards,
  • pre-designed,
  • fore ordained,
  • more compelled,
  • de-signed,
  • in-exorable,
  • in tended,
  • most foreordained,
  • more overhanging,
  • most meant,
  • pre-determined,
  • most compelled,
  • fore-ordained,
  • most designed,
  • in escapable,
  • most brewing,
  • more meant,
  • in exorable,
  • over-hanging,
  • de signed,
  • way ball bounces,
  • overhanging,
  • pre designed,
  • that is be,
  • in-tended,
  • over hanging,
  • in-escapable,
  • most predesigned,
  • most overhanging,
  • more designed,
  • more foreordained,
  • more brewing,
  • more predesigned,
  • pre determined.
  •fated (adjective)
  • in the stars,
  • fated.
  •forthcoming (adjective)
  • gathering,
  • waiting to,
  • looking to,
  • Hovering,
  • brewing,
  • Portending.
  •imminent (adjective)
  • more gathering,
  • un-escapable,
  • more handwriting on the wall,
  • most unescapable,
  • fast approaching,
  • fastapproaching,
  • most handwriting-on-the-wall,
  • on horizon,
  • un escapable,
  • most inevasible,
  • more fast approaching,
  • more fast-approaching,
  • on verge,
  • more unescapable,
  • more handwriting-on-the-wall,
  • most handwriting on the wall,
  • in air,
  • most fast-approaching,
  • most gathering,
  • more inevasible,
  • most fast approaching,
  • more fastapproaching,
  • most fastapproaching.
  •inauspicious (adjective)
  • ill boding,
  • un lucky,
  • un promising,
  • most foreboding,
  • un timely,
  • un luckier,
  • in auspicious,
  • un-timely,
  • more ill omened,
  • un propitious,
  • more unpromising,
  • more illomened,
  • un timelier,
  • in-opportune,
  • un-promising,
  • un fortunate,
  • most ill-omened,
  • un-luckiest,
  • most illomened,
  • un favorable,
  • un-fortunate,
  • ill omened,
  • un luckiest,
  • un timeliest,
  • inauspicious,
  • in-auspicious,
  • un-favorable,
  • more foreboding,
  • in opportune,
  • fore boding,
  • more ill-omened,
  • illboding,
  • un-timelier,
  • fore-boding,
  • un-lucky,
  • most ill omened,
  • Ill-boding,
  • un-timeliest,
  • most unpromising,
  • un-luckier.
  •inevitable (adjective)
  • de-creed,
  • in bag,
  • more decreed,
  • pre-scribed,
  • more ineludible,
  • in flexible,
  • in-evitable,
  • in the bag,
  • unpreventable,
  • un deniable,
  • de creed,
  • in-flexible,
  • un alterable,
  • un-preventable,
  • more unpreventable,
  • most ineludible,
  • no ifs ands buts,
  • un preventable,
  • un-alterable,
  • irresistible,
  • un-deniable,
  • in evitable,
  • most unpreventable,
  • most decreed,
  • pre scribed.
  •looming (adjective)
  • more appearing,
  • most appearing,
  • most emerging,
  • more emerging.
  •menacing (adjective)
  • more louring,
  • most minacious,
  • most louring,
  • more minacious,
  • more intimidatory,
  • most intimidatory.
  •nearing (adjective)
  • most approximating,
  • more approximating.
  •ominous (adjective)
  • in-hospitable,
  • more doomful,
  • more presaging,
  • pre monitory,
  • most doomful,
  • more malificent,
  • more precursive,
  • un-friendly,
  • illfated,
  • pre-monitory,
  • in hospitable,
  • more premonitory,
  • pre-cursive,
  • un-friendliest,
  • most malefic,
  • most precursive,
  • most presaging,
  • un friendlier,
  • un friendliest,
  • ill fated,
  • un-friendlier,
  • more malefic,
  • most premonitory,
  • most malificent,
  • pre cursive.
  •pending (adjective)
  • in line,
  • on line,
  • in the works,
  • in balance,
  • on board.
  •portentous (adjective)
  • extra ordinary.
  •prospective (adjective)
  • hopedfor,
  • more hoped-for,
  • most soon to be,
  • more looked for,
  • pro-posed,
  • more hoped for,
  • most soon-to-be,
  • more soon-to-be,
  • pro posed,
  • more lookedfor,
  • most lookedfor,
  • most looked for,
  • most hoped for,
  • most hoped-for,
  • hoped-for,
  • more looked-for,
  • more soon to be,
  • soon to be,
  • soon-to-be,
  • most hopedfor,
  • lookedfor,
  • more hopedfor,
  • about be,
  • most looked-for.
  •threatening (adjective)
  • loury,
  • Lowery.
  •unavoidable (adjective)
  • locked up,
  • un-avoidable,
  • open and shut,
  • open shut,
  • un avoidable.

• n.

  •
  • shortly,
  • just,
  • in the short run/term,
  • soon,
  • at the earliest/first opportunity,
  • around the corner,
  • any day/moment etc. now,
  • in no time (at all).
  •
  • momentary.
  •close at hand (noun)
  • close at hand.

• v.

  •approaching (verb)
  • closing,
  • accessing,
  • Nearing,
  • converging,
  • advancing,
  • Gaining.
  •ensuing (verb)
  • developing,
  • Eventuating,
  • following,
  • resulting,
  • Destining.

• Other synonyms:

  •imminent
  • corner.
  •Other relevant words:
  • beetle,
  • potential,
  • beetle-browed,
  • sinister,
  • beetling,
  • pregnant,
  • foreboding,
  • in the balance,
  • within reach,
  • wind,
  • happen,
  • next,
  • about,
  • in abeyance,
  • in embryo,
  • terrifying,
  • destiny,
  • hazardous,
  • in one's view,
  • neighbouring,
  • on the cards,
  • impend,
  • anticipated,
  • rumoured,
  • unfinished,
  • lurking,
  • already in sight,
  • frightening,
  • attending,
  • Depending,
  • about to be,
  • mounting,
  • projecting,
  • unconfirmed,
  • perilous,
  • lowering,
  • instant,
  • Overhung,
  • awaited,
  • in danger imminent,
  • unsettled,
  • Producing,
  • around,
  • futurity,
  • discernible,
  • incipient,
  • come,
  • drawing close,
  • detectable,
  • budding,
  • drawing nigh,
  • discoverable,
  • approximative,
  • unborn,
  • in reserve,
  • comminatory,
  • superincumbent,
  • adjacent,
  • chancy,
  • on hold,
  • afoot,
  • jutting,
  • minatory,
  • dangling,
  • incumbent,
  • portentous,
  • undecided,
  • inconclusive,
  • affluent,
  • hanging fire,
  • intimidating,
  • waiting,
  • foreseen,
  • Preparing,
  • Impendent,
  • undetermined,
  • about to occur,
  • immediate,
  • on the way,
  • horizon.

Paraphrases for Impending:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    forthcoming, upcoming, imminent.
  • Proper noun, singular
    imminent.

• Forward Entailment

  • Adjective
    pending.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    coming, threatening, next, immediate, incoming, budding, anticipated, fledgling, up-coming, future, pressing, proximate, incipient, urgent, eminent.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    upcoming, emerging, Looming, approaching, letting, coming, pending.

Antonyms for Impending:

• adj.

  • forthcoming
    gone, remote, past, later, distant, never.
  • Other antonyms:
    contingent, doubtful, chimerical, improbable, bygone, onetime, late, eventual, quondam, far-off, problematical, erstwhile, foregone, Whilom, unlikely, other, old, sometime, unexpected, former, recent, ultimate.