Home > Antonyms > Antonyms for threatened

Antonyms for threatened

Grammar : Adj
Spell : thret-n
Phonetic Transcription : ˈθrɛt n

Definition of threatened

Origin :
  • Old English þreatnian (see threat). Related: Threatened. Threatening in the sense of "portending no good" is recorded from 1520s.
  • adj endangered
Example sentences :
  • It was sultry, and there was something in the atmosphere that at once threatened and soothed.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Mr. Lovelace's threatened vengeance is in return for threatened vengeance.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • In other words Mr. Gladstone was threatened with total blindness.
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • You hear, brother, with what strange diseases he has threatened me.
  • Extract from : « The Imaginary Invalid » by Molire
  • It was refused, whereupon Morgan threatened that no quarter should be given.
  • Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle
  • On enquiry, we learned these fellows had threatened to rob her shop.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • But then it occurred to me that there was a way of using the weapon which threatened, as a boomerang.
  • Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
  • Both of us early saw the danger which threatened the country.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Its threatened evil may be changed into a national blessing.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VII (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • I told him of thy expected return, and threatened him with thy resentment.
  • Extract from : « Calderon The Courtier » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Synonyms for threatened

Based on : Thesaurus.com - Gutenberg.org - Dictionary.com - Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019