Impending vs Ultimate - What's the difference?
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Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
Final; last in a series.
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(of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
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Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
That will happen at some time; eventual.
Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
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Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
The final or most distant point; the conclusion
The greatest extremity; the maximum
(uncountable) The sport of ultimate frisbee.
Impending is a related term of ultimate.
As adjectives the difference between impending and ultimate
is that impending is approaching; drawing near; about to happen while ultimate is final; last in a series.As a verb impending
is .As a noun ultimate is
the most basic or fundamental of a set of things.impending
English
Adjective
(-)- I have no time right now because of an impending paper submission deadline.
Synonyms
* imminentVerb
(head)- The hurricane is impending .
ultimate
English
Adjective
(wikipedia ultimate) (-)- the ultimate pleasure
- the ultimate disappointment
- Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
- those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict
- an ultimate constituent of matter