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Synonyms, Thesaurus & Antonyms of 'threatening' Princeton's WordNet
1. (adj) baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments Synonyms: grim inauspicious , sullen , minacious , baneful , lowering , black , baleful , dark , sinister , heavy , minatory , dour , ominous , menacing , ill , forbidding , threatening Antonyms: unalarming , clear 2. (adj) heavy, lowering, sullen, threatening
darkened by clouds Synonyms: ominous , laboured sullen laborious overweight , toilsome , intemperate forbidding , with child(p) , sound , dark , wakeless dense grueling dour , heavy(p) , threatening , 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 Antonyms: unalarming , clear
Synonyms, Thesaurus & Antonyms of 'threatening' English Synonyms and Antonyms
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 h Synonyms: imminent , impending , threatening Antonyms: chimerical , doubtful , problematical , unexpected , unlikely , contingent , improbable
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