Crossword clues for imminent
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Imminent \Im"mi*nent\, a. [L. imminens, p. pr. of imminere to project; pref. im- in + minere (in comp.) to jut, project. See Eminent.]
Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril. ``In danger imminent.''
--Spenser.-
Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous.
Hairbreadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach.
--Shak. -
(With upon) Bent upon; attentive to. [R.]
Their eyes ever imminent upon worldly matters.
--Milton.Syn: Impending; threatening; near; at hand.
Usage: 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from Middle French imminent (14c.) and directly from Latin imminentem (nominative imminens), present participle of imminere "to overhang; impend, be near, be at hand," from assimilated form of in- "into, in, on, upon" (see in- (2)) + minere "jut out," related to mons "hill" (see mount (n.)). Related: Imminently.
Wiktionary
a. about to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won't last long.
WordNet
adj. close in time; about to occur; "retribution is at hand"; "some people believe the day of judgment is close at hand"; "in imminent danger"; "his impending retirement" [syn: at hand(p), close at hand(p), impending]
Usage examples of "imminent".
Captain Miles Standish, the leader of a group of religious fanatics from England, who believed in the imminent arrival of Armageddon in Europe, invited a local tribe of Algonkian Indians, the Wampanoag, to join them for a dinner celebrating the good fortune that had seen their immigrant community established in New England.
Having received orders to quiet the dissensions in Asuncion, in spite of being nearly seventy years of age, and having lost an arm in the Italian wars, he marched at once, taking but forty soldiers in his train, as, war being imminent with Portugal, it was not safe to deplete the slender forces in the River Plate.
Thin the bastards first, he thought, batter them, bleed them, then massacre them, but his men were too excited at the prospect of imminent victory and far too much of their fire was either going high or else being wasted on the barricade of the dead.
Again, if the dart be successful, then at the second critical instant, that is, when the whale starts to run, the boatheader and harpooneer likewise start to running fore and aft, to the imminent jeopardy of themselves and every one else.
He refurbishes the Mercedes star, forecasts the rise and fall of Borgward, disposes of Marshall Plan funds, is present when the Ruhr Authority meets, dismisses the Constitution before it is approved by the Parliamentary Council, fixes the date of the currency reform, counts votes before the first Bundestag elections are held, builds the imminent Korean crisis into the shipbuilding program of the Howaldt Works of Kiel and Hamburg, arranges the Petersberg Agreement, picks a certain Dr.
The doom that threatened at the Club Cadiz was more imminent than even The Shadow knew!
It was unusual for Hickory to come into the house, and Ashton knew before the man spoke that a crisis was imminent.
Naples, Rome or Florence seemed imminent, Major - de Coverley would pack his musette bag, commandeer an airplane and a pilot, and have himself flown away, accomplishing all this without uttering a word, by the sheer force of his solemn, domineering visage and the peremptory gestures of his wrinkled finger.
Power surged between them and Drago knew when the sorcerers jumped back from them that their eyes glowed and sparkled with the imminent release of the violence surging through them.
I am not impressed that the danger is very great or imminent, but I will thank you to give Generals Rosecrans and Curtis, respectively, such orders as may turn their attention thereto and prevent as far as possible the apprehended disturbance.
It is not to be believed that a man who had been engaged in transactions measured by hundreds of thousands of dollars, through a period of ten years, should take every evidence of those transactions on board a vessel of hardly more than two hundred tons burden, manned by a crew composed of highbinders, as he has described them, and sail to foreign lands, over tempestuous seas, upon the poor pretext of procuring guano for the plantations of Louisiana,--and this, as he says, when war was imminent.
He would try to find a horse somewhere and get to headquarters as quickly as possible to warn Inskor, the chief scout, that the Lantian invasion was imminent.
When his climax was imminent, he warned her softly, but in response her legs clasped him the tighter and she shook in wild abandonment as he discharged into her womb.
He remembered the girl Belzina telling him of the meeting of the Travellers on the Longest Day, which was imminent.
Meursault perpetually suspended, with his lawyer having announced his plan to appeal, but with Meursault thinking mostly about his imminent execution.