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menacing

adjective

1 menacing

Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments:
— His tone became menacing.

synonyms: baleful, forbidding, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening.

Roget 909: threatening, menacing; minatory, minacious; comminatory, abusive; in terrorem [Lat.]; ominous etc. (predicting) 511; defiant etc. 715; ... show more


Moby thesaurus: about to be, abusive, alarming, already in sight, apocalyptic, approaching, at hand, bad, baleful, baneful, black, bludgeoning, blustering, bodeful, boding, brewing, browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, chancy ... show more.

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