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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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