Word Meanings - THREATENING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

a. & n. from Threaten, v. -- Threat"en*ing*ly, adv. Threatening letters , letters containing threats, especially those designed to extort money, or to obtain other property, by menaces; blackmailing letters.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of THREATENING)

• Alarming
• Terrible
• fearful
• frightful
• portentous
• ominous
• threatening
• Imminent
• Impending
• hovering
• Menace
• Threat
• denunciation
• Minatory
• Menacing
• Ominous
• Portentous
• suggestive
• foreboding
• premonitory
• unpropitious

Related words: (words related to THREATENING)

• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• HOVER-HAWK
  The kestrel.
• FEARFULNESS
  The state of being fearful.
• FOREBODINGLY
  In a foreboding manner.
• ALARM
  1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in
• MENACE
  1. To express or show an intention to inflict, or to hold out a prospect of inflicting, evil or injury upon; to threaten; -- usually followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war. My master . . . did menace me with
• OMINOUS
  Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.
• THREATEN
  1. To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn. Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
• ALARMABLE
  Easily alarmed or disturbed.
• IMPENDING
  Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening. An impending brow. Hawthorne. And nodding Ilion waits th' impending fall. Pope. Syn. -- Imminent; threatening. See Imminent.
• FRIGHTFULNESS
  The quality of being frightful.
• IMMINENT
  1. Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril. "In danger imminent." Spenser. 2. Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous. Hairbreadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach. Shak.
• MENACINGLY
  In a threatening manner.
• FRIGHTFULLY
  In a frightful manner; to a frightful dagree.
• HOVER
  1. To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something. Great flights of birds are hovering about the bridge, and settling on it. Addison. A
• FEARFULLY
  In a fearful manner.
• IMMINENTLY
  In an imminent manner.
• THREAT
  The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; meance; threatening; denunciation. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. Shak. (more info) irdriozan, Icel. to fail,
• ALARMIST
  One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms. Macaulay.
• FEARFUL
  1. Full of fera, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened. Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidat all their power. Bp. Warburton. 2. inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid. What man is there that is fearful
• MULTINOMINAL; MULTINOMINOUS
  Having many names or terms.
• CRIMINATORY
  Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as, a criminatory conscience.
• AFFRIGHTFUL
  Terrifying; frightful. -- Af*fright"ful*ly, adv. Bugbears or affrightful apparitions. Cudworth.
• BINOMINOUS
  Binominal.
• EXTERMINATORY
  Of or pertaining to extermination; tending to exterminate. "Exterminatory war." Burke.
• ABDOMINOUS
  Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.