threatening
About 10.90 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb present participle and gerund of threaten
- adjective Presenting a threat, posing a likely risk of harm.
Never turn your back to someone who is displaying threatening behavior.
- adjective Making threats, making statements about a willingness to cause harm.
- noun An act of threatening; a threat.
Similar words
minatory menacing minacious alarming sullen sinister ugly lowering forbidding heavy
Often followed by
to the and or a him them situation in
Word family
threateningly
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