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Synonyms & Antonyms of unthreatening
1
as in nonthreatening, innocuous
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for unthreatening
Antonyms & Near Antonyms for unthreatening
2
as in propitious, benign
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for unthreatening
Antonyms & Near Antonyms for unthreatening
- baleful,
- dire,
- direful,
- doomy,
- foreboding,
- ill,
- ill-boding,
- inauspicious,
- menacing,
- minatory,
- ominous,
- portentous,
- sinister,
- threatening
- 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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The first known use of unthreatening was in 1903
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