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Synonyms & Antonyms of threatening
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- economists warning of a threatening recession
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- a threatening silence followed the loud thump in the adjoining motel room
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- 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
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- threatening rocks lined that narrow stretch of the river through which we would be rafting
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verbSynonyms of threatening (Entry 2 of 2)
- the powerful hurricane continues to threaten the southern coastline
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- endangering,
- hazarding,
- imperiling
- (or imperilling),
- jeopardizing,
- periling
- (also perilling)
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“Threatening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/threatening. Accessed 25 Sep. 2021.
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The first known use of threatening was in 1530
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