Word Meanings - IMPENDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening. An impending brow. Hawthorne. And nodding Ilion waits th' impending fall. Pope. Syn. -- Imminent; threatening. See Imminent.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPENDING)

• Imminent
• Impending
• hovering
• threatening
• Threatening
• Menacing
• intimidating
• minatory
• comminatory
• minacious
• foreboding
• unpromising
• imminent
• impending

Related words: (words related to IMPENDING)

• UNPROMISE
  To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman.
• MINACIOUS
  Threatening; menacing.
• HOVER-HAWK
  The kestrel.
• FOREBODINGLY
  In a foreboding manner.
• MENACE
  1. To express or show an intention to inflict, or to hold out a prospect of inflicting, evil or injury upon; to threaten; -- usually followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war. My master . . . did menace me with
• INTIMIDATORY
  Tending or serving to intimidate.
• THREATEN
  1. To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn. Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
• IMPENDING
  Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening. An impending brow. Hawthorne. And nodding Ilion waits th' impending fall. Pope. Syn. -- Imminent; threatening. See Imminent.
• IMMINENT
  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.
• MENACINGLY
  In a threatening manner.
• HOVER
  1. To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something. Great flights of birds are hovering about the bridge, and settling on it. Addison. A
• INTIMIDATE
  To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash. Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. Johnson. Syn. -- To dishearten; dispirit; abash;
• IMMINENTLY
  In an imminent manner.
• HOVERER
  A device in an incubator for protecting the young chickens and keeping them warm.
• MENACER
  One who menaces.
• COMMINATORY
  Threatening or denouncing punishment; as, comminatory terms. B. Jonson.
• THREATENER
  One who threatens. Shak.
• MENACCANITE
  An iron-black or steel-gray mineral, consisting chiefly of the oxides of iron and titanium. It is commonly massive, but occurs also in rhombohedral crystals. Called also titanic iron ore, and ilmenite.
• FOREBODEMENT
  The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.
• FOREBODER
  One who forebodes.
• CRIMINATORY
  Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as, a criminatory conscience.
• EXTERMINATORY
  Of or pertaining to extermination; tending to exterminate. "Exterminatory war." Burke.
• IMPEND
  To pay. Fabyan.
• INCRIMINATORY
  Of or pertaining to crimination; tending to incriminate; criminatory.