Definitions for menacing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening(adj)

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. menacing(Adjective)

    Suggesting imminent harm.

  2. menacing(Adjective)

    Threatening.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Menacing(u)

    of Menace


Translations for menacing

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

menacing(adjective)

threatening to harm

a menacing weapon.

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