impending doom
Disaster drawing near
Impending doom is a sense that something catastrophic is about to happen.
The phrase often describes anxiety or dread rather than actual danger: A feeling of impending doom washed over her.
In medical contexts, a sudden sense of impending doom can be a symptom of heart attack or severe allergic reaction—the body signaling that something is seriously wrong.
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
- apocalypseTotal civilizational collapse
- catastropheDevastating, large-scale misfortune
- disasterSudden ruinous event
ominous · dark clouds · gathering storm · looming · threat · darkness · storm · countdown · inevitable · point of no return · fate · day of reckoning · reckoning · prophecy · end times · shadow · anxiety · terror
- Anxietyanxiety, nervousness, panic, worry, generalized anxiety
- doomapocalypse, end times, judgment day, end of days, cataclysm
- suspensesuspense, suspenseful, tension, nail-biter, nail-biting
- omensomens, omen, portent, portents, signs
impending doomsalvation
Deliverance from harm
happy ending · promised land · bright future · silver lining · light at the end of the tunnel
impending doomall clear
Signal danger has passed
safe harbor · out of danger · smooth sailing · clear skies · nothing to fear
impend, impends, impended, pending, pendulous, pendant, pendulum, pendent, depend