brewing

astir cooking forthcoming getting ready going on in preparation

completed ended finished

baking boiling broiling browning frying grilling heating roasting simmering sizzling steaming steeping stewing toasting

coming designed doomed intended

closed compelled condemned directed foreordained impending looming meant menacing near ordained overhanging predestined predetermined sealed settled stated threatening

at hand certain compulsory forthcoming hanging over in prospect in store in the cards in the wind ineluctable inescapable inevitable inexorable instant predesigned que sera sera that is to be that will be to come unavoidable way the ball bounces

distant remote unsettled

avoidable unscheduled

forthcoming immediate impending inevitable likely looming possible probable unavoidable

about to happen approaching close coming expectant fast-approaching following gathering in store in the air in the cards in the offing in the wind in view ineluctable inescapable inevasible menacing near nearing next nigh on its way on the horizon on the verge overhanging see it coming threatening to come unescapable

avoidable distant escapable later never unlikely

doubtful far future

approaching imminent looming

coming gathering hovering menacing near nearing overhanging portending threatening

at hand in the cards in the offing in the wind looking to ominous on the horizon proximate see it coming waiting to

gone past

distant later never remote