impends
Hangs over ominously
Impends means to be about to happen, especially something threatening or momentous: Disaster impends.
The word suggests looming inevitability—whatever impends hangs over the situation, ready to arrive.
More common in its participial form impending: impending doom, impending deadline.
Appearing threateningly close
- approachingComing toward something
- nearingGetting progressively closer
- forthcomingSoon to appear
- upcomingSoon to occur
pending · imminent · close · near · brewing · gathering · shortly · soon
Suggesting something bad approaches
- menacingConveying threat or danger
- threateningExpressing intent to harm
- direExtremely serious or urgent
- portentousOminously significant
overhanging · hovering · shadowing · clouding · boding · dread · sinister · grim
Belief about future outcomes
- suspenseAnxious uncertainty about outcomes
- waitingRemaining in expectation
- prospectPotential client or opportunity
- eventualityPotential future happening
future · foreseeable · premonition · foretaste · presentiment · apprehension · tension · uncertainty
looming
Appearing threateningly close
- approachingComing toward something
- nearingGetting progressively closer
- forthcomingSoon to appear
upcoming · pending · imminent · close · near · brewing · gathering · shortly · soon · inevitable
ominous
Suggesting something bad approaches
- menacingConveying threat or danger
- threateningExpressing intent to harm
- direExtremely serious or urgent
portentous · overhanging · hovering · shadowing · clouding · boding · dread · sinister · grim · baleful
expectation
Belief about future outcomes
- suspenseAnxious uncertainty about outcomes
- waitingRemaining in expectation
- prospectPotential client or opportunity
eventuality · future · foreseeable · premonition · foretaste · presentiment · apprehension · tension · uncertainty · forecast
impendspasses
Goes beyond or through
concludes · ends · transpires · occurs · materializes
- impending doomUnavoidable calamity approaching