imminent [adjective]: about to happen; impending.
Example: We were terrified to hear that war was imminent.
Related words: imminently [adverb], imminentness [noun]
Synonyms: approaching, brewing, coming, forthcoming, immediate, impending, ineluctable, inescapable, inevitable, looming, nearing, proximate, threatening
Antonyms: distant, far, impossible, never, remote, unlikely
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