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List of meaning for threatening

having a hostile or intimidating manner

baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening(adj)

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"

heavy, lowering, sullen, threatening(adj)

darkened by clouds

"a heavy sky"

giving signs of immediate occurrence

economists warning of a threatening recession

being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come

a threatening silence followed the loud thump in the adjoining motel room

involving potential loss or injury

threatening rocks lined that narrow stretch of the river through which we would be rafting

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