about to
about to phrase: indicates something that will happen very soon; indicates action that is imminent; ready to; went to.
Phrase
about to
- Indicates something that will happen very soon; indicates action that is imminent; ready to; went to
- He's standing at the edge, and I think he's about to jump.
- She seemed about to say something.
- Indicates that one has no intention of doing the stated thing at any time in the future.
- I'm not about to let the lockdown stop me from going to the beach every day.
- I'm not about to wander around at night to find it.
- Indicates that one is preparing or planning to do the stated thing at some time in the future, not necessarily imminently.
about to meaning in Malayalam, Arabic, Indonesian and Thai
about to in Malayalam
- all set to, just going to, ready to
- ഏതാണ്ട്, തയാറായി, ഉദ്ദേശിച്ച്, അരികെ, അടുത്ത്, വക്കത്ത്
about to in Arabic
- indicating imminence
- عَلَى وَشْك ʕalā wašk
about to in Indonesian
- indicating imminence
- hampir saja
about to in Thai
- indicating imminence
- กำลังจะ gam-lang jà
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Examples of about to in a sentence
- And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Acts of the Apostles, xviii, 14
- I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company...
Synonyms of about to
Questions about about to
- What does about to mean?
- About to means indicates something that will happen very soon; indicates action that is imminent; ready to; went to.
- What is about to in Malayalam?
- About to in Malayalam is ഏതാണ്ട്, തയാറായി, ഉദ്ദേശിച്ച്. See About to meaning in Malayalam.
- How do you use about to in a sentence?
- And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:
- What part of speech is about to?
- About to is a phrase.
Words near about to in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: about to (page history and authors); about to (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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