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Definitions

in the air

ADJECTIVE
imminent
Synonyms
STRONGEST
forthcoming immediate impending inevitable likely looming possible probable unavoidable
WEAK
about to happen approaching brewing close coming expectant fast-approaching following gathering in store 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
Antonyms
STRONGEST
avoidable distant escapable later never unlikely
WEAK
doubtful far future

Example Sentences

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It’s better to break stuff on the ground than in the air.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

The frustration was broader, an ambient sense of national failure in the air.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2026

Hands in the air, clapping, pointing euphorically to fans in the audience, DeCarlo worked the room and hit the high notes as if he’d been doing it for years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

"I felt an explosion in the air and, when I looked up, the plane was flying close to the house on my plot," Noé Mota said.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

Stray bits of nest hung in the air and settled on the superintendent’s bald dome.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.