Synonyms for threatening
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : thret-n-ing |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈθrɛt n ɪŋ |
Top 10 synonyms for threatening Other synonyms for the word threatening
Définition of threatening
Origin :- Old English þreatnian (see threat). Related: Threatened. Threatening in the sense of "portending no good" is recorded from 1520s.
- adj menacing, ominous
- The official's voice was charged with threatening as he went on.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- But it settled down again, black and threatening, before spring came.
- Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
- The political controversy, however fierce and threatening, is only for power.
- Extract from : « Slavery Ordained of God » by Rev. Fred A. Ross, D.D.
- And so the report came to me that the workers were threatening strike.
- Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
- It was some moments before, under the girl's threatening eyes, she could speak at all.
- Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- No harm seemed to come of it, while the noises the gods made were certainly not threatening.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- Here was no meat, nothing but a threatening and inedible silence.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- It was the hush of portent, the hush of watchfulness, the hush of a threatening tension.
- Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
- The mob was now threatening; every moment the peril was increasing.
- Extract from : « Beaux and Belles of England » by Mary Robinson
- He stood there with darkening face, an obstinate, almost a threatening figure.
- Extract from : « The Avenger » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
Antonyms for threatening
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