What does threatening mean?
Definitions for threatening
ˈθrɛt n ɪŋthreat·en·ing
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word threatening.
Princeton's WordNet
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"
heavy, lowering, sullen, threatening(adj)
darkened by clouds
"a heavy sky"
Wiktionary
threatening(Noun)
An act of threatening; a threat.
threatening(Adjective)
Presenting a threat; menacing; frightening.
Webster Dictionary
Threatening
of Threaten
Threatening
a. & n. from Threaten, v
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of threatening in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of threatening in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of threatening in a Sentence
The question is not when should it be removed, but should it be kept there when severe weather is threatening?
If a patient has metastatic melanoma and is in her first or second trimester, it’s unlikely she ’ll be able to deliver to term without the melanoma becoming very life-threatening.
We included industrial designers in the team in an effort to create a robot that looked professional rather than either threatening or overly cute, basically, we wanted the perceptual equivalent of a St. Bernard.
I think Russia is signaling to us that the Bear is back. We are likely to see more of this intimidating, threatening operations on the part of the Russian fleet, this is an expression of President Putin's foreign policy and it’s directed towards the United States.
That matters because when you fire your interceptor, you have to have an estimate of where( the threatening missile is) going to be.
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- مهددArabic
- amenaçadorCatalan, Valencian
- drohendGerman
- απειλητικόςGreek
- amenazadorSpanish
- uhkaavaFinnish
- menaçantFrench
- truendeNorwegian
- ameaçadorPortuguese
- amenințătorRomanian
- угрожа́ющийRussian
- đe dọaVietnamese
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