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Synonyms for threatening
ˈθrɛt n ɪŋthreat·en·ing

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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  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.

    Synonyms:
    imminent, impending

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. threatening

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

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    encouraging, promising, reassuring, enticing, passed, overpast, withdrawn

Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 2 votes

  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"

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

    Antonyms:
    unalarming, clear

  2. heavy, lowering, sullen, threateningadjective

    darkened by clouds

    "a heavy sky"

    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

    Antonyms:
    unalarming, clear

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. threateningadjective

    Synonyms:
    menacing, impending, impendent, imminent, minatory

  2. threateningnoun

    Synonyms:
    commination, threat, denunciation, menace

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. threateningadjective

    Synonyms:
    imminent, ominous, impending, minatory, fulminating

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How to use threatening in a sentence?

  1. Billy Ludvigsson:

    The bleeding was severe, life-threatening at first, i think we might have actually saved his life.

  2. Bennie Thompson:

    Team Pence life was at risk, there were people who had gallows erected on the lawn of the Capitol ostensibly to hang the vice president. There were people on them threatening the life of the vice president. The vice president could not leave the Capitol of the United States because of the riot. He was sequestered in an area in the Capitol. So his life was in danger.

  3. Karline Kleijer:

    MSF denounces any European government which is choosing political scoring of points above saving lives at sea, people were threatening to jump into the water (during) the standoff between Italy and Malta, because they were scared and said if we have to die we'd rather die at sea than in Libya.

  4. Michelle Rinker:

    We're conservative and there's a lot of corruption that's happened in this country and I don't think it's threatening.

  5. Chung Sye-kyun:

    The government is planning to extend the current distancing levels and anti-virus standards as they are until the Lunar New Year holidays end, the third COVID-19 wave, which had temporarily slowed, is again threatening our daily lives following the group infections from the missionary institutes.


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