Definition of Imminent

Imminent

Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril.

Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous.

(With upon) Bent upon; attentive to.

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Imminent Quotations

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.
Emile M. Cioran

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
David Herbert Lawrence

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
Dag Hammarskjold

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.
Christopher Lasch

Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger?
Sean Hannity

It's made me more expectant of the imminent return of Jesus, and also more sensitive to the people around me. Knowing Jesus will return soon makes me want all the more to tell people about him and all that he offers.
Jerry B. Jenkins

George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.
Bianca Jagger

We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.
Kevin Costner

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.
Fiona Shaw

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
Anish Kapoor

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.
Edward Kennedy

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.
Ludwig von Mises

President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not.
Richard Neal

Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets about an imminent catastrophe. The more public support his stimulus bill loses, the more Obama embraces fear-mongering.
Fred Barnes

Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.
Dennis Kucinich

There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.
Alan Clark

Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media.
Robert Lutz

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
Germaine Greer

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Imminent Translations

imminent in German is bevorstehend, drohende
imminent in Latin is praestans prestans

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