Imminently?
Dear teachers,
I saw the following sentence on the BBC channel when Joe Biden's victory was announced:
"Joe Biden to speak to the nation imminently."
I was wondering why the BBC said "imminently", which has a pejorative sense of something unpleasant; a word that is ( as Collins and Webster dictionaries have said) often used of something bad, evil or dangerous.
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org/dictionary/english/imminently But Cambrige dictionary only says that imminently means very soon.
- org/dictionary/english/imminently But Cambrige dictionary only says that imminently means very soon.
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https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/imminently
But Cambrige dictionary only says that imminently means very soon.
0Sesquipedalian101"imminently", which has a pejorative sense of something unpleasant
"bad, evil, or dangerous" is not the same as "pejorative", but in any case none of these factors are absolutely required to be present to justify the use of "imminently". It just means "soon" regardless of what is about to happen.
CJ
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