Synonyms for threatening
ˈθrɛt n ɪŋthreat·en·ing

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1. threatening

   Imminent, from the Latin, with the sense of projecting over, signifies liable to happen at once, as some calamity, dangerous and close at hand. Impending, also from the Latin, with the sense of hanging over, is closely akin to imminent, but somewhat less emphatic. Imminent is more immediate, impending more remote, threatening more contingent. An impending evil is almost sure to happen at some uncertain time, perhaps very near; an imminent peril is one liable to befall very speedily; a threatening peril may be near or remote, but always with hope that it may be averted.

   Synonyms:
   imminent, impending

   Antonyms:
   chimerical, contingent, doubtful, improbable, problematical, unexpected, unlikely

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1. threatening

   Synonyms:
   menacing, intimidating, minatory, comminatory, minacious, foreboding, unpromising, imminent, impending

   Antonyms:
   encouraging, promising, reassuring, enticing, passed, overpast, withdrawn

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1. baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threateningadjective

   threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

   "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly"

   Synonyms:
   grim, inauspicious, sullen, minacious, baneful, lowering, black, baleful, dark, sinister, heavy, minatory, dour, ominous, menacing, ill, forbidding

   Antonyms:
   unalarming, clear

2. heavy, lowering, sullen, threateningadjective

   darkened by clouds

   "a heavy sky"

   Synonyms:
   ominous, laboured, sullen, laborious, overweight, toilsome, intemperate, forbidding, with child(p), sound, dark, wakeless, dense, grueling, dour, heavy(p), grave, cloggy, heavy(a), large(p), baleful, clayey, enceinte, minatory, menacing, grievous, glowering, fleshy, sour, weighed down, hard, weighty, impenetrable, gruelling, expectant, lumbering, ponderous, backbreaking, sonorous, great(p), profound, operose, saturnine, heavy, arduous, big(a), labored, moody, morose, punishing, glum, gravid, big(p), minacious, lowering, leaden, sinister

   Antonyms:
   unalarming, clear

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1. threateningadjective

   Synonyms:
   menacing, impending, impendent, imminent, minatory

2. threateningnoun

   Synonyms:
   commination, threat, denunciation, menace

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1. threateningadjective

   Synonyms:
   imminent, ominous, impending, minatory, fulminating

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1. List of paraphrases for "threatening":

   threat, menacing, threatens, threaten, threatened, endangering, threat-related, threats, jeopardizing, jeopardising, menace

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1. Brian Schaffner:

   If New Democrats nominate a white male, that person on one hand might seem less threatening to moderate voters who maybe have somewhat conservative racial views, on the other hand, that candidate, given what the Democratic Party base looks like these days, is going to have to campaign somewhat more explicitly on issues that matter to minority groups.

2. The NHC:

   This is a life-threatening situation. Residentsthere should take immediate shelter.

3. Samuel Alito:

   This sounds like a roadmap for threatening your spouse and then getting away with it.

4. Jim Gard:

   We were told last year that he was n’t allowed on campus with a backpack on him, there were problems with him last year threatening students, and I guess he was asked to leave campus.

5. Mohamud Noor:

   I’ve already received some random emails and phone calls from people threatening me following the shooting, i don’t think the threats are coming from people in Minnesota, but we are still getting them.