From the present participle ofLatinimminēre(“to overhang”), frommineō ("to project, overhang"), related tominae (Englishmenace) andmons (Englishmount). Compare witheminent.
imminent (comparativemoreimminent,superlativemostimminent)
- About tohappen,occur, ortake place verysoon, especially of something which won't last long.
1927,Whitney v. California:To courageous, self-reliant men, with confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning applied through the processes of popular government, no danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is soimminent that it may befall before there is opportunity for full discussion.
2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, inRAIL, number948, page42:The Second World War was reaching fever pitch, with the entire Allied effort in top gear for theimminent invasion of Europe, while later that month buzz bombs would start falling on London.
- Imminent andeminent are very similar sounds, and are weak rhymes; in dialects with thepin-pen merger, these become homophones. A typo of either word may result in a correction to the wrong word by spellchecking software.
- Similarlyimminent is not to be confused withimmanent(“intrinsic and related concepts”) orimmanant(“a certain type of scalar property of a matrix”).
- Imminent often impliesimminence ofadverse effects: urgency, danger, threat, or death, rather than desirable prospects.
about to happen, occur, or take place very soon
- Arabic:وَشِيك m(wašīk)
- Belarusian:надыхо́дзячы(nadyxódzjačy),неміну́чы (be)(njeminúčy)(inevitable),неадхі́льны(njeadxílʹny)(inevitable),няўхі́льны(njaŭxílʹny)(inevitable)
- Bulgarian:предстоя́щ (bg)(predstojášt),немину́ем (bg)(neminúem)
- Catalan:imminent (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:即將來臨 /即将来临 (zh)(jíjiāng láilín)
- Czech:bezprostřední (cs)
- Dutch:imminent (nl),dreigend (nl)
- Finnish:tuleva (fi)
- French:imminent (fr)
- Galician:inminente
- German:bevorstehend (de)
- Greek:επικείμενος (el) m(epikeímenos)
- Ido:minac-anta
- Italian:imminente (it)
- Japanese:please add this translation if you can
- Korean:절박한(jeolbakhan),절박하다(jeolbakhada)
- Latvian:draudošs m,nenovēršams m,gaidāms m
- Maori:raraka(refers to misfortune)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:nært forestående,umiddelbart forestående,overhengende
- Persian:قریبالوقوع(qarib-ol-voqu')
- Plautdietsch:dreiwent
- Polish:bliski (pl),nadciągający
- Portuguese:iminente (pt)
- Romanian:iminent (ro) m
- Russian:предстоя́щий (ru)(predstojáščij),надвига́ющийся (ru)(nadvigájuščijsja),немину́емый (ru)(neminújemyj)(inevitable),неизбе́жный (ru)(neizbéžnyj)(inevitable)
- Sanskrit:भविष्य (sa)(bhaviṣya)
- Serbo-Croatian:iminentno,neminovno (sh),neizbježno (sh),neposredno (sh),prestojeće
- Spanish:inminente (es)
- Swedish:nära förestående,överhängande (sv)
- Ukrainian:немину́чий(nemynúčyj)(inevitable)
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- “imminent”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “imminent”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
- “imminent”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
Borrowed fromLatinimminentem(“projecting, overhanging; threatening, menacing”).
imminent m orf (masculine and feminine pluralimminents)
- imminent
- “imminent”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition,Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
- “imminent”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025.
- “imminent” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “imminent” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
FromLatinimminentem.
imminent (feminineimminente,masculine pluralimminents,feminine pluralimminentes)
- imminent
imminent
- third-personpluralpresentactiveindicative ofimmineō
