threatening
65
3.6
- adjective
- /ˈθrɛtənɪŋ/
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- His aggressive posture and loud voice made the situation feel threatening to everyone in the room.
- a threatening situation
- become threatening
- find threatening
He has been very threatening beyond a normal statement.
- He has been very threatening beyond a normal statement.
- Is that pain damaging, threatening, harmful?
- That is so threatening and vile.
- Some of it is threatening for sure, you know, and, and daunting.
- And they, they, they chucked me out for threatening behaviour.
- But yes, it didn't seem it didn't fit your conception of a threatening entity, correct.
- And they they started being more threatening.
- You say a word that's threatening, nevermind do the disturbing drawings.
Examples
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Robinson was cooperative, made no threatening gestures, and gave no indications of resistance.
Academic text (2017) -
In a school setting, students may find small groups less threatening than one-on-one student-librarian conversations.
Academic text (2015) -
I started to go outside, and suddenly everything seemed so threatening to me.
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Just received another threatening note.
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For them, the world is often a dangerous and threatening place to grow up.
Academic text (1992) -
So fear is always focused on some sort of threatening object, some sort of danger.
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How do you advise people to deal with threatening others in public?
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Now market fears caused the British currency to crash, threatening economic disaster.
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Pitted against the two intrepid lovers was the dark, threatening figure of my father.
Fiction book (1997) -
I'm trying to get Susie to stand up to you, but your manner is so threatening, she's afraid to speak!
Synonyms
∞
1.5
Likely to cause harm or injury
∞
2.7
Likely to cause great harm or danger
763
1.0
Causing fear or making you feel afraid
287
3.0
Causing someone to feel afraid
96
6.4
Makes you feel that something bad will happen
87
6.1
Giving a feeling that something bad will happen
4
8.4
Looking or sounding dangerous and making you feel afraid
1
5.0
Giving the feeling that something dangerous may happen
A voice or look that makes you feel someone will cause harm
That makes people feel afraid
Looking unfriendly or dangerous so people do not want to go near
Antonyms
How Threatening
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Threatening comes from the old English root threat, which meant 'force' or 'danger', and the verb threaten once meant to press someone with that danger. So, a threatening look or voice shows possible harm and makes people feel unsafe.