Antonyms for threatening
ˈθrɛt n ɪŋthreat·en·ing

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1. threatening

   Imminent, from the Latin, with the sense of projecting over, signifies liable to happen at once, as some calamity, dangerous and close at hand. Impending, also from the Latin, with the sense of hanging over, is closely akin to imminent, but somewhat less emphatic. Imminent is more immediate, impending more remote, threatening more contingent. An impending evil is almost sure to happen at some uncertain time, perhaps very near; an imminent peril is one liable to befall very speedily; a threatening peril may be near or remote, but always with hope that it may be averted.

   Antonyms:
   chimerical, contingent, doubtful, improbable, problematical, unexpected, unlikely

   Synonyms:
   imminent, impending

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1. threatening

   Antonyms:
   encouraging, promising, reassuring, enticing, passed, overpast, withdrawn

   Synonyms:
   menacing, intimidating, minatory, comminatory, minacious, foreboding, unpromising, imminent, impending

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1. baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threateningadjective

   threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

   "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly"

   Antonyms:
   unalarming, clear

   Synonyms:
   grim, inauspicious, sullen, minacious, baneful, lowering, black, baleful, dark, sinister, heavy, minatory, dour, ominous, menacing, ill, forbidding

2. heavy, lowering, sullen, threateningadjective

   darkened by clouds

   "a heavy sky"

   Antonyms:
   unalarming, clear

   Synonyms:
   ominous, laboured, sullen, laborious, overweight, toilsome, intemperate, forbidding, with child(p), sound, dark, wakeless, dense, grueling, dour, heavy(p), grave, cloggy, heavy(a), large(p), baleful, clayey, enceinte, minatory, menacing, grievous, glowering, fleshy, sour, weighed down, hard, weighty, impenetrable, gruelling, expectant, lumbering, ponderous, backbreaking, sonorous, great(p), profound, operose, saturnine, heavy, arduous, big(a), labored, moody, morose, punishing, glum, gravid, big(p), minacious, lowering, leaden, sinister

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1. threateningadjective

   Synonyms:
   imminent, ominous, impending, minatory, fulminating

How to use threatening in a sentence?

1. Carrie Goldberg:

   Often, distribution of images is in the context of greater violence, sometimes the offender not only posts the naked picture but also threatens and stalks in other ways. He may be sending hundreds of text messages or showing up at work, threatening friends and family.

2. Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly:

   The quick response and combined efforts of FCSO deputies, Crisis Negotiations, Communications Center, Fire Rescue, and the deputies holding the juvenile’s hand saved a life today, their training in de-escalation techniques and being able to talk to someone who’s threatening to take their life is remarkable.

3. President Biden:

   Republicans have made it clear that if they win control of the Congress, they will shut down the government, refuse to pay our bills, and it will be the first time in the history of America that we will default--unless I yield and cut social security and Medicare … They're threatening to default on the federal debt. There's nothing that would create more chaos, more inflation, more damage to the American economy than this, let me be clear: I will not cut social security. I will not cut Medicare.

4. John Boehner:

   Unfortunately, by threatening two of these bipartisan jobs bills, the president essentially is telling the American people he really doesn't care what they think.

5. Jack Graham:

   He’s already been sent to human resources and he received a semi-threatening letter from the CEO, it’s already happening – the punishment – the discrimination.

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