threatening

Speech parts

1. threatening - Noun

2. threatening - Adjective

3. threatening - Verb

5. threatening - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Threaten

a. & n. from Threaten, v.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

menacing minacious heavy lowering forbidding sinister ominous sullen baleful minatory black brewing warlike bode serious

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Antonyms

golden white championship aegis good certain

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Phrases with the word

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Examples

The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening. Livy

The truth is, about the Middle East is, had there been no oil there, it would be like Africa. Nobody is threatening to intervene in Africa. Wesley Clark

The Great Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was n. Elbert Hubbard

Who dies threatening will be buried with farting. Estonian Proverb

Despite the beauty of the moon, sun and stars, the sky also has a threatening thunder and striking lightening. African Proverb

When people are no longer afraid of death, there is no use threatening them with it. Chinese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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