threatening

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.

Examples

• Never turn your back to someone who is displaying threatening behavior.

Synonyms

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

Anagrams of threatening