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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bound to happen |
| Synonyms: | certain, compulsory, fated, impending, ineluctable, ineludible, inescapable, inevasible, inevitable, inexorable, locked up, necessary, obligatory, open and shut, set, sure, unescapable |
| Antonyms: | avoidable, escapable |
| Main Entry: | looming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rising |
| Synonyms: | appearing, approaching, emerging, imminent, impending |
| Main Entry: | upcoming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happening soon |
| Synonyms: | approaching, forthcoming, future, imminent, impending, looming, nearing, next |
| Main Entry: | at hand |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | within reach |
| Synonyms: | accessible, close, imminent, impending, nearby |
| Antonyms: | far |
| Main Entry: | jeopardous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
| Synonyms: | adventurous, alarming, bad, breakneck, chancy, critical, dangersome, deadly, delicate, dynamite, exposed, fatal, formidable, hairy*, hazardous, heavy*, hot*, impending, impregnable, insecure, loaded, malignant, menacing, mortal, nasty, on collision course, parlous, perilous, portentous, precarious, pressing, queasy, risky, serious, serpentine, shaky, speculative, terrible, thorny, threatening, ticklish, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, ugly*, unhealthy, unsafe, unstable, urgent, venturesome, venturous, viperous, vulnerable, wicked |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | minatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | threatening |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, alarming, apocalyptic, at hand, baleful, baneful, black, bullying, cautionary, close, comminatory, dangerous, dire, fateful, forthcoming, grim, ill-boding, imminent, impendent, impending, inauspicious, intimidatory, looming, loury, lowering, lowery, minacious, near, overhanging, portending, portentous, scowling, sinister, terrorizing, ugly*, unlucky, unpropitious, unsafe, upcoming, warning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | parlous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
| Synonyms: | adventurous, alarming, bad, breakneck, chancy, critical, dangersome, deadly, delicate, dynamite, exposed, fatal, formidable, hairy*, hazardous, heavy*, hot*, impending, impregnable, insecure, jeopardous, loaded, malignant, menacing, mortal, nasty, on collision course, perilous, portentous, precarious, pressing, queasy, risky, serious, serpentine, shaky, speculative, terrible, thorny, threatening, ticklish, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, ugly*, unhealthy, unsafe, unstable, urgent, venturesome, venturous, viperous, vulnerable, wicked |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | approach |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come nearer |
| Synonyms: | advance, approximate, be comparable to, be like, bear, belly up to, border, buzz*, catch up, close in, come, come at, come close, compare with, contact, converge, correspond to, creep up, draw near, equal, gain on, go toward, impend, loom up, match, meet, move in on, move toward, near, progress, reach, resemble, surround, take after, threaten, verge upon |
| Antonyms: | depart, distance, go away, leave |
* = 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, impend, loom, mull, plot, project, scheme, start, stir up, weave |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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