- 1. a. Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril. Source: opted
- 2. a. Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous. Source: opted
- 3. a. (With upon) Bent upon; attentive to. Source: opted
- 4. adj. close in time; about to occur Source: wordnet
- 5. 1. Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril. "In danger imminent." Spenser. 2. Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous. Hairbreadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach. Shak. 3. (With upon) Bent upon; attentive to. [R.] Their eyes ever imminent upon worldly matters. Milton. Syn. -- Impending; threatening; near; at hand. -- Imminent, Impending, Threatening. Imminent is the strongest: it denotes that something is ready to fall or happen on the instant; as, in imminent danger of one's life. Impending denotes that something hangs suspended over us, and may so remain indefinitely; as, the impending evils of war. Threatening supposes some danger in prospect, but more remote; as, threatening indications for the future. Three times to-day You have defended me from imminent death. Shak. No story I unfold of public woes, Nor bear advices of impending foes. Pope. Fierce faces threatening war. Milton. Source: webster
- 6. j:100 s close in time; about to occur Source: ecdict
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