threatening

Synonyms

baleful, dire, direful, foreboding, ill, ill-boding, inauspicious, menacing, minatory, ominous, portentous, sinister;

Antonyms

unthreatening;

Near Antonyms

auspicious, benign, bright, encouraging, favorable, golden, heartening, hopeful, promising, propitious, prosperous;

Related Words

black, bleak, cheerless, chill, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dim, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, saturnine, sepulchral, somber (or sombre), sullen, wretched;

discouraging, disheartening, hopeless, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious;

ill-fated, ill-starred, star-crossed, troubled, unfortunate, unlucky;

evil, malign, malignant;