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looming - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: looming
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rising
Synonyms: approaching, imminent, impending, appearing, emerging
Main Entry: loom
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: appear, often imposingly
Synonyms: approach, await, brew, bulk, come on, dawn, dominate, emanate, emerge, figure, gather, hover, impress, issue, lower, make up, menace, mount, near, overhang, overshadow, portend, rear, rise, show, soar, stand out, threaten, top, tower, be at hand, be coming, be forthcoming, be imminent, be in the cards, be in the wind, be near, become visible, break through, come forth, come into view, come on the scene, hang over, impend, overtop, seem huge, seem large, take shape
Main Entry: imminent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: at hand, on the way
Synonyms: approaching, close, coming, expectant, following, forthcoming, gathering, immediate, impending, ineluctable, inescapable, inevitable, likely, looming, menacing, near, nearing, next, nigh, possible, probable, threatening, unavoidable, about to happen, brewing, fast-approaching, handwriting-on-the-wall, in store, in the air, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, inevasible, on its way, on the horizon, on the verge, overhanging, see it coming, to come, unescapable
Notes: if you mean 'famous' or 'superior,' you want eminent; if you mean 'impending, about to happen' that is imminent; and if you mean 'present, inherent,' your word is immanent
imminent is 'about to happen' and immanent is 'inherent' or 'pervading the material world'
Antonyms: distant, doubtful, far, future, later
Main Entry: impending
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: forthcoming
Synonyms: approaching, at hand, coming, gathering, imminent, looming, menacing, near, nearing, ominous, proximate, threatening, brewing, handwriting-on-the-wall, hovering, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, looking to, on the horizon, overhanging, portending, see it coming, waiting to
Antonyms: distant, later, never, remote
Main Entry: menacing
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: intimidating, ominous
Synonyms: alarming, approaching, dangerous, frightening, imminent, impending, looming, lowering, threatening, intimidatory, louring, minacious, minatory, overhanging
Antonyms: assisting, helping, aiding, unthreatening
Main Entry: oncoming
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: impending
Synonyms: approaching, coming, expected, forthcoming, imminent, looming, nearing, upcoming, advancing, onrushing
Antonyms: past, preceding
Main Entry: threatening
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: menacing, ominous
Synonyms: aggressive, alarming, apocalyptic, at hand, baleful, baneful, black, bullying, close, dangerous, dire, fateful, forthcoming, grim, ill-boding, imminent, impending, inauspicious, looming, lowering, near, portentous, sinister, ugly, unlucky, unpropitious, unsafe, upcoming, warning, cautionary, comminatory, impendent, intimidatory, loury, lowery, minacious, minatory, overhanging, portending, scowling, terrorizing
Antonyms: nice, pleasant
Main Entry: destined
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bound for, fated in near future
Synonyms: at hand, certain, closed, coming, compulsory, directed, doomed, forthcoming, impending, ineluctable, inescapable, inevitable, inexorable, instant, intended, looming, menacing, near, ordained, predetermined, que sera sera*, sealed, settled, stated, threatening, unavoidable, brewing, compelled, condemned, designed, foreordained, hanging over, in prospect, in store, in the cards, in the wind, meant, overhanging, predesigned, predestined, that is to be, that will be, to come, way the ball bounces
Antonyms: avoidable, unscheduled
Main Entry: near
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: close in time; forthcoming
Synonyms: approaching, approximate, at hand, coming, comparative, expected, imminent, impending, looming, next, relative, in the offing, near-at-hand
Antonyms: deferred, distant, far, postponed, remote, expired
Main Entry: appear
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: come into sight
Synonyms: arise, arrive, attend, check in*, come, come out, develop, drop in*, emerge, expose, issue, loom, materialize, occur, present, recur, rise, show, show up, spring, surface, turn out, turn up, be present, be within view, blow in*, bob up, break through, breeze in, clock in, come forth, come into view, come to light, crop up, make the scene, pop in*, pop up, punch in, punch the clock, ring in, roll in*, time in
Antonyms: disappear, hide
Main Entry: brew
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: plan, devise
Synonyms: breed, compound, concoct, contrive, develop, excite, foment, form, gather, hatch, loom, mull, plot, project, scheme, start, weave, impend, stir up
Main Entry: dawn
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: start
Synonyms: appear, begin, develop, emerge, glimmer, initiate, lighten, loom, open, originate, rise, unfold, show itself
Antonyms: end, finish, set
Main Entry: emerge
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: come out, arise
Synonyms: appear, arrive, come up, dawn, derive, develop, egress, emanate, flow, gush, issue, loom, materialize, originate, proceed, rise, show, spring, spurt, steam, stem, surface, transpire, turn up, become apparent, become known, become visible, come forth, come into view, come on the scene, come to light, crop up, make appearance, spring up
Antonyms: disappear, fade, leave, go away
Main Entry: menace
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: bother, frighten
Synonyms: alarm, browbeat, bully, chill, compromise, endanger, hazard, imperil, intimidate, jeopardize, loom, lower, overhang, peril, portend, risk, scare, spook, terrorize, threaten, torment, bad-eye, impend, lean on, push around, put heat on, scare hell out of, whip around
Antonyms: aid, assist, help
Main Entry: overhang
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: bulge, hang over
Synonyms: command, endanger, extend, jut, loom, menace, poke, portend, pouch, project, protrude, stand out, stick out, threaten, be imminent, be suspended, beetle, cast a shadow, dangle over, droop over, flap over, impend, overtop, rise above, swing over, tower above
Main Entry: rear
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: lift, rise
Synonyms: bring up, elevate, hoist, hold up, jump, leap, loom, pick up, raise, soar, support, take up, tower, turn up, uphold, uplift, set upright, spring up, upraise
Antonyms: drop, fall
Main Entry: rise
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: become apparent
Synonyms: appear, arise, befall, begin, betide, chance, come, dawn, derive, develop, emanate, emerge, eventuate, fall out*, flow, go, happen, head, issue, loom, occur, originate, proceed, spring, stem, surface, transpire, turn up*, crop up, flare up
Antonyms: decline, recede, regress
Main Entry: show
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: passively exhibit something
Synonyms: appear, arrive, assert, be visible, blow in, clarify, come, demonstrate, determine, disclose, discover, display, divulge, elucidate, emerge, establish, evidence, evince, explain, get, get in, illustrate, indicate, instruct, lay out, loom, make known, make out, make the scene, manifest, mark, materialize, note, ostend, point, present, proclaim, project, prove, put in appearance, reach, register, reveal, show one's face, show up, teach, testify to, turn up, unveil
Antonyms: conceal, hide
Main Entry: spring
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: originate, emerge
Synonyms: appear, arise, arrive, begin, birth, burgeon, come, come out, commence, derive, descend, develop, emanate, flow, grow, hatch, head, issue, loom, mushroom, proceed, rise, start, stem, be derived, be descended, come into being, come into existence, shoot up, upspring
Main Entry: stand out
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: be conspicuous, prominent
Synonyms: bulge, bulk, emerge, jut, loom, overhang, poke, pouch, project, protrude, stick out, attract attention, be distinct, be highlighted, be striking, beetle, catch the eye
Antonyms: obscure
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