menacing

About 1.48 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Synonym of threatening in its various senses.

   menacing look

2. verb present participle and gerund of menace
3. noun The act of making menaces or threats.

Similar words

minatory threatening minacious alarming sinister ugly forbidding baleful ominous threat

Often followed by

the and to attitude in than as tone manner

Word family

menacingly