verging
On the brink
Verging means approaching or bordering on something, typically a state or condition: Her enthusiasm was verging on obsession, The situation is verging on chaos.
The word suggests being at the edge of something without quite reaching it.
From the noun verge, meaning edge or brink.
Getting progressively closer
- imminentAbout to occur
- impendingSoon to occur
- loomingAppearing threateningly close
- forthcomingSoon to appear
approaching · onset · advance · incoming · encroaching · arrival · advent · progression
Point of transition
- thresholdPoint of beginning
- dawnDay's first glow
- onsetStarting point of something
- inceptionFounding moment
nascent · emerging · budding · incipient · unfolding · becoming · shifting · turning
nearing
Getting progressively closer
forthcoming · approaching · onset · advance · incoming · encroaching · arrival · advent · progression · proximate
cusp
Point of transition
inception · nascent · emerging · budding · incipient · unfolding · becoming · shifting · turning · transforming
precipice
Steep rock face
- thresholdPoint of beginning
- edgeBoundary or sharpness
- tipping pointThreshold triggering major change
collapse · crisis · danger · peril · abyss · extreme · limit · climax · breaking point · critical
adjacent
Directly next to
- adjoiningSharing a border
- abuttingSharing a common border
- contiguousSharing a common boundary
neighboring · flanking · skirting · touching · fringing · alongside · beside · next · tangent · juxtaposed
- almost wordsalmost, nearly, barely, close, just about
- approximationsabout, approximately, around, roughly, almost
vergingretreating
Moving back from advance
receding · withdrawing · pulling away · distancing · moving away
- verging onNearly becoming something