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menacing
Synonyms and Antonyms of menacing
- warns that the emergence of new viruses is one of the most menacing developments we face
black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dim, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched
discouraging, disheartening, hopeless, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious
ill-fated, ill-starred, star-crossed, troubled, unfortunate, unlucky
- fears that the unemployment rate may be reaching menacing proportions
dicey, insecure, precarious, treacherous, uncertain
distressing, sickening, unpleasant
adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, malignant, nasty, noxious, pernicious, pestilent
deadly, deathly, destructive, dire, fatal, fateful, fell, killer, lethal, mortal, murderous
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