threatening

Meanings

Plural: threatenings

Verb

• pose a threat to; present a danger to
• to utter intentions of injury or punishment against:
• to be a menacing indication of something:
• present participle and gerund of threaten

Adjective Satellite

• threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  • "his threatening behavior"
• darkened by clouds

Adj

• Presenting a threat, posing a likely risk of harm.
• Making threats, making statements about a willingness to cause harm.

Noun

• An act of threatening; a threat.

Synonyms

baleful, endanger, forbidding, heavy, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, lowering, menace, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, peril, sinister, sullen, threaten, threatensome, threatful

Anagrams of threatening