Synonyms for Threatening:

• adj.

  •aggressive (adjective)
  • offensive,
  • intrusive,
  • hawkish.
  •baleful (adjective)
  • more foreboding,
  • venomous,
  • most foreboding,
  • fore boding,
  • fore-boding,
  • more evil.
  •bellicose (adjective)
  • more battleful,
  • most battleful.
  •black (adjective)
  • funereal,
  • sad,
  • doleful,
  • gloomy,
  • sombre,
  • sombrer,
  • depressive,
  • enraged.
  •creepy (adjective)
  • hairraising,
  • more shuddersome,
  • dis gusting,
  • most shuddersome,
  • most itching,
  • dis-gusting,
  • more itching,
  • un-pleasant,
  • hair raising,
  • un pleasant.
  •dangerous (adjective)
  • precarious,
  • treacherous,
  • perilous,
  • dangersome,
  • unsafe,
  • insecure,
  • hazardous,
  • risky,
  • Jeopardous,
  • on collision course,
  • parlous,
  • shaky.
  •dark (adjective)
  • more scowling,
  • most scowling,
  • most glowering,
  • more glowering.
  •destined (adjective)
  • more compelled,
  • overhanging,
  • more foreordained,
  • in-escapable,
  • most compelled,
  • un-avoidable,
  • most designed,
  • that is be,
  • more overhanging,
  • pre-designed,
  • way ball bounces,
  • more brewing,
  • most predestined,
  • ordained,
  • over hanging,
  • most overhanging,
  • pre determined,
  • in-evitable,
  • in tended,
  • pre-destined,
  • de signed,
  • pre designed,
  • over-hanging,
  • un avoidable,
  • most foreordained,
  • fore-ordained,
  • more predestined,
  • de-signed,
  • in-exorable,
  • most brewing,
  • fore ordained,
  • in wind,
  • in-tended,
  • in cards,
  • pre-determined,
  • most predesigned,
  • in evitable,
  • most meant,
  • in exorable,
  • more meant,
  • in escapable,
  • more predesigned,
  • pre destined,
  • more designed.
  •disturbing (adjective)
  • troubling,
  • more discomposing,
  • more impeding,
  • dis composing,
  • impeding,
  • Harassing,
  • more aggravating,
  • most harassing,
  • more disconcerting,
  • most troubling,
  • most aggravating,
  • most vexing,
  • most discomposing,
  • dis-composing,
  • dis concerting,
  • more discomforting,
  • more agitating,
  • dis comforting,
  • dis-concerting,
  • more discommoding,
  • most impeding,
  • dis-comforting,
  • most discommoding,
  • more troubling,
  • more harassing,
  • more vexing,
  • most agitating,
  • embarrassing,
  • most discomforting,
  • most disconcerting.
  •exigent (adjective)
  • importunate,
  • needful.
  •fierce (adjective)
  • in tense,
  • untamed,
  • feller,
  • murderous,
  • tumultous-tumultuous,
  • more howling,
  • un-controllable,
  • most tigerish,
  • apest,
  • un controllable,
  • more brutish,
  • raging,
  • tumultoustumultuous,
  • in-tenser,
  • Flipped,
  • tumultous tumultuous,
  • fellest,
  • in tenser,
  • most howling,
  • un tamed,
  • more flipped,
  • in-tense,
  • un-tamed,
  • most brutish,
  • most flipped,
  • in-tensest,
  • more tigerish,
  • howling.
  •forbidding (adjective)
  • more offputting,
  • most off putting,
  • unapproachable,
  • offputting,
  • off putting,
  • most offputting,
  • un-friendliest,
  • un-friendly,
  • un-friendlier,
  • most off-putting,
  • more off-putting,
  • more off putting,
  • un-approachable,
  • dis agreeable,
  • un friendliest,
  • un approachable,
  • un friendlier,
  • dis-agreeable.
  •formidable (adjective)
  • more daunting,
  • most daunting,
  • dis maying,
  • more dismaying,
  • re-doubtable,
  • most dismaying,
  • re doubtable,
  • dis-maying.
  •grave (adjective)
  • more killing,
  • killing,
  • most killing.
  •hopeless (adjective)
  • irremediable,
  • helpless,
  • black,
  • past hope,
  • beyond recall,
  • unmitigable,
  • in despair,
  • irredeemable,
  • shot down,
  • up the creek,
  • goner,
  • no-win,
  • unachievable.
  •ill (adjective)
  • un-kinder,
  • un-promising,
  • un-gracious,
  • un-kindest,
  • ill,
  • un luckiest,
  • more unpromising,
  • un luckier,
  • un gracious,
  • un-kind,
  • most nocent,
  • dis-respectful,
  • un kind,
  • un kinder,
  • un-luckiest,
  • dis respectful,
  • un-lucky,
  • un-luckier,
  • un wholesome,
  • more nocent,
  • most unpromising,
  • un-wholesome,
  • ill mannered,
  • un lucky,
  • un kindest,
  • un promising,
  • illmannered.
  •imminent (adjective)
  • more gathering,
  • most gathering,
  • more fastapproaching,
  • most inevasible,
  • more fast-approaching,
  • most handwriting on the wall,
  • on verge,
  • in offing,
  • most fast approaching,
  • more handwriting on the wall,
  • most fastapproaching,
  • more handwriting-on-the-wall,
  • un escapable,
  • fast approaching,
  • most handwriting-on-the-wall,
  • on horizon,
  • more inevasible,
  • in air,
  • most unescapable,
  • most fast-approaching,
  • un-escapable,
  • more unescapable,
  • more fast approaching,
  • fastapproaching.
  •impending (adjective)
  • more hovering,
  • looking to,
  • more portending,
  • most hovering,
  • most portending.
  •inauspicious (adjective)
  • inauspicious,
  • un-timelier,
  • ill omened,
  • in-opportune,
  • ill boding,
  • more illomened,
  • in opportune,
  • in auspicious,
  • un-timeliest,
  • most ill-omened,
  • Ill-boding,
  • un timelier,
  • most illomened,
  • un timely,
  • more ill omened,
  • most ill omened,
  • un-timely,
  • more ill-omened,
  • un timeliest,
  • in-auspicious,
  • illboding.
  •life-threatening (adjective)
  • lifethreatening.
  •menacing (adjective)
  • most louring,
  • more intimidatory,
  • most minacious,
  • more louring,
  • more minacious,
  • most intimidatory.
  •menacing, ominous (adjective)
  • dire,
  • unlucky,
  • comminatory,
  • Impendent,
  • close,
  • unpropitious,
  • Portending,
  • bullying,
  • portentous,
  • fateful,
  • ugly,
  • forthcoming,
  • terrorizing,
  • apocalyptic,
  • upcoming,
  • Lowery,
  • grim,
  • baneful,
  • Looming,
  • scowling,
  • loury,
  • minatory,
  • cautionary,
  • at hand.
  •nearing (adjective)
  • more approximating,
  • oncoming,
  • most approximating,
  • up-coming,
  • up coming.
  •ominous (adjective)
  • more precursive,
  • more premonitory,
  • in hospitable,
  • most malificent,
  • most malefic,
  • most doomful,
  • pre-cursive,
  • pre-monitory,
  • pre monitory,
  • more presaging,
  • more malificent,
  • more malefic,
  • pre cursive,
  • in-hospitable,
  • most presaging,
  • most precursive,
  • most premonitory,
  • more doomful.
  •overcast (adjective)
  • not clear,
  • not fair.
  •perilous (adjective)
  • un steadiest,
  • touch go,
  • un sound,
  • un-steadier,
  • un-sounder,
  • un-sound,
  • un-soundest,
  • un steadier,
  • un-steadiest,
  • un-sure,
  • un sounder,
  • un steady,
  • un sure.
  •portentous (adjective)
  • extra ordinary.
  •rebellious (adjective)
  • in corrigible,
  • more rioting,
  • dis affected,
  • dis loyal,
  • dis-orderly,
  • dis-loyal,
  • dis-affected,
  • more sabotaging,
  • most rioting,
  • dis-obedient,
  • individualistic,
  • dis obedient,
  • more anarchistic,
  • in tractable,
  • un-governable,
  • most anarchistic,
  • most insurrectionary,
  • in-corrigible,
  • more insurrectionary,
  • in-tractable,
  • dis orderly,
  • most sabotaging.
  •serious (adjective)
  • unamusing,
  • of consequence,
  • playing hard ball,
  • no laughing matter,
  • no joke,
  • smoking,
  • unhumorous,
  • strictly business,
  • sobering,
  • out for blood.
  •sinister (adjective)
  • more blackhearted,
  • dis honest,
  • most blackhearted,
  • dis quieting,
  • dis-honest,
  • dis-quieting.
  •stormy (adjective)
  • more riproaring,
  • most riproaring,
  • most blustering,
  • raining cats dogs,
  • most stormful,
  • more storming,
  • more blustering,
  • most storming,
  • squallier,
  • more stormful,
  • squalliest.
  •threatening (adjective)
  • forewarning,
  • Browbeating,
  • foreboding,
  • admonishing,
  • intimidating,
  • Hinting,
  • frightening,
  • tormenting,
  • scary.
  •unadvantageous (adjective)
  • un-satisfactory,
  • un-advantageous,
  • un advantageous,
  • un satisfactory.
  •unfavorable (adjective)
  • un-favorable,
  • un-suited,
  • un seemly,
  • un-fit,
  • dis advantageous,
  • un favorable,
  • in convenient,
  • most discommodious,
  • in-convenient,
  • un suited,
  • in expedient,
  • dis-advantageous,
  • in-expedient,
  • in-felicitous,
  • un-seemlier,
  • dis commodious,
  • un-seemliest,
  • un-seasonable,
  • un seemliest,
  • in advisable,
  • in-advisable,
  • in felicitous,
  • dis-commodious,
  • un seasonable,
  • more discommodious,
  • un seemlier,
  • illadvised.
  •unhospitable (adjective)
  • un-inviting,
  • un-hospitable,
  • un hospitable,
  • un inviting.
  •unpropitious (adjective)
  • un propitious,
  • un-propitious.
  •unsafe (adjective)
  • un dependable,
  • un-safest,
  • ex-plosive,
  • un safer,
  • un reliable,
  • fearsome,
  • un-safe,
  • un safest,
  • hanging by a thread,
  • un-reliable,
  • un-safer,
  • un safe,
  • ex plosive,
  • un-trustworthy,
  • un-dependable,
  • on limb.
  •unsettling (adjective)
  • un settling,
  • un-settling.
  •upsetting (adjective)
  • up setting,
  • up-setting.
  •warning (adjective)
  • alarm,
  • Monitorial,
  • exhortatory,
  • advisory.

• n.

  •
  • disastrous,
  • damaging,
  • harmful,
  • injurious,
  • ruinous.
  •
  • harsh,
  • foresight,
  • near,
  • raw,
  • severe.
  •alarming (noun)
  • alarming.
  •cloudy (noun)
  • cloudy.
  •coercion (noun)
  • threatenings,
  • menacings,
  • strongarm tactic,
  • bullyings,
  • browbeatings,
  • strongarm tactics,
  • strong arm tactic.
  •commination (noun)
  • ex-communication,
  • male-diction,
  • ex communications,
  • ex communication,
  • male diction,
  • male-dictions,
  • ex-communications,
  • threat punishment,
  • male dictions.
  •forbidding (noun)
  • forbidding.
  •heavy (noun)
  • heavy.
  •intimidation (noun)
  • de-moralizing,
  • dauntings,
  • cowings,
  • terrorizings,
  • demoralizings,
  • co-wings,
  • de moralizing,
  • frightenings,
  • co wing,
  • co wings,
  • co-wing.
  •lowering (noun)
  • lowering.

• v.

  •approaching (verb)
  • coming.
  •endangering (verb)
  • Imperiling,
  • Risking,
  • Jeopardizing,
  • Endangering.
  •frightening (verb)
  • horrifying,
  • rattling,
  • agitating,
  • unnerving,
  • terrifying,
  • harrowing,
  • petrifying,
  • setting on edge,
  • haunting,
  • panicking.
  •threatening (verb)
  • Bulldozing,
  • Scaring.
  •warning (verb)
  • Advising,
  • alerting,
  • Cautioning.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • inclement,
  • unseasonable,
  • humid,
  • approaching,
  • sultry,
  • unseasonably,
  • muggy,
  • Nearing,
  • sunless.
  •
  • humidity,
  • filthy,
  • pitiless.
  •
  • fair.
  •
  • foul.
  •discouraging
  • hopeless.
  •Other relevant words:
  • drawing nigh,
  • advertise,
  • Sinisterly,
  • indicate,
  • weighty,
  • furious,
  • resentful,
  • stern,
  • terroristic,
  • antagonistic,
  • dull,
  • starless,
  • fear,
  • blacken,
  • intemperate,
  • belligerent,
  • lurking,
  • hazard,
  • denouncement,
  • saturnine,
  • grey,
  • momentous,
  • scuppering,
  • Imperilling,
  • gathering,
  • Hazarding,
  • explosive,
  • backbreaking,
  • harshly,
  • dusky,
  • constraint,
  • venturesome,
  • domineering,
  • immediate,
  • unfavourable,
  • bludgeoning,
  • desperately,
  • high pressure,
  • glowering,
  • unhealthy,
  • boding,
  • vile,
  • foreshadow,
  • morose,
  • hostilely,
  • laborious,
  • augur,
  • profound,
  • nigh,
  • dense,
  • bad-tempered,
  • close at hand,
  • fleshy,
  • evil,
  • forbiddingly,
  • daunting,
  • betoken,
  • Threatful,
  • auspicate,
  • grievous,
  • bode,
  • thuggish,
  • sternly,
  • direful,
  • inform,
  • queering,
  • dourly,
  • rigor,
  • duress,
  • gravid,
  • heavily,
  • darkly,
  • threateningly,
  • tottering,
  • hardly,
  • exigently,
  • awfully,
  • denunciatory,
  • exist,
  • on the cards,
  • Bodeful,
  • waiting,
  • anticipate,
  • about to be,
  • defiant,
  • foreshadowing,
  • Periculous,
  • dour,
  • untoward,
  • curse,
  • presage,
  • unfortunate,
  • force,
  • condemnation,
  • ponderous,
  • despairingly,
  • laboured,
  • Awaiting,
  • cloggy,
  • Exposing,
  • offering,
  • guess,
  • terrorising,
  • critical,
  • regard,
  • dismal,
  • deem,
  • balefully,
  • punishing,
  • destruction,
  • sonorous,
  • Adventuring,
  • brewing,
  • leaden,
  • wakeless,
  • misty,
  • momentary,
  • warlike,
  • sulky,
  • frowning,
  • accusation,
  • clouded over,
  • ominously,
  • sullen,
  • sharply,
  • grimly,
  • waterlogged,
  • roughly,
  • menace,
  • risk,
  • Presaging,
  • top-heavy,
  • Venturing,
  • pending,
  • prophesy,
  • Auguring,
  • dim,
  • big,
  • prefigure,
  • harshness,
  • martial,
  • announce,
  • of evil portent,
  • Staking,
  • forecast,
  • threat,
  • abusive,
  • predict,
  • frighteningly,
  • sour,
  • somber,
  • perilously,
  • fraught with danger,
  • clouded,
  • hazardously,
  • dwell,
  • horrifyingly,
  • in terrorem,
  • dauntingly,
  • jeopardising,
  • overweight,
  • antedate,
  • shady,
  • hopelessly,
  • surly,
  • strong-arm,
  • strong,
  • atrocious,
  • Operose,
  • bad,
  • Unhospitable,
  • in reserve,
  • scolding,
  • drawing near,
  • violent,
  • denunciation,
  • unpleasant,
  • troublesome,
  • disturbingly,
  • unfriendly,
  • cruelly,
  • Blackmailing,
  • distressingly,
  • ramshackle,
  • unworthy,
  • provocative,
  • wrathful,
  • Brandishing,
  • reckon,
  • already in sight,
  • darkened,
  • frightful,
  • weighed down,
  • labored,
  • sound,
  • despicable,
  • lie,
  • enceinte,
  • wintry,
  • warn,
  • bleak,
  • unstable,
  • terrorist,
  • accented,
  • impenetrable,
  • quarrelsome,
  • Coercing,
  • berating,
  • chancy,
  • instant,
  • calculate,
  • dreary,
  • evilly,
  • gloomily,
  • Hectoring,
  • ill-fated,
  • arduous,
  • expectant,
  • in danger imminent,
  • horrible,
  • contentious,
  • Betokening,
  • brutal,
  • portend,
  • Guideless,
  • nasty,
  • moody,
  • inclemency,
  • hardness,
  • hold,
  • gruelling,
  • Star-crossed,
  • attacking,
  • Preparing,
  • great,
  • drawing close,
  • Predicting,
  • unsteady,
  • cheerless,
  • threaten,
  • Crumbling,
  • peril,
  • toilsome,
  • overcast,
  • declare,
  • glum,
  • blustering,
  • dangerously,
  • terrifyingly,
  • clayey,
  • severely,
  • compulsion,
  • thick,
  • grueling,
  • doomy,
  • reproving,
  • dismally,
  • shadowy,
  • hostile,
  • foretell,
  • moonless,
  • menacingly,
  • criticism,
  • frightfully,
  • undermining,
  • worrying,
  • compute,
  • lumbering,
  • hard,
  • combative,
  • tumbledown,
  • ill-starred,
  • future,
  • acute,
  • murky,
  • angry,
  • large,
  • foggy.

Paraphrases for Threatening:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    menacing, threatens, Endangering, intimidating, ominous.
  • Proper noun, singular
    threaten, threatens, menace.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    menace.

• Forward Entailment

  • Adjective
    threat.
  • Proper noun, singular
    threat, threats.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    threat.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    life-threatening.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    intimidate, endangered, impending, threat-related, danger, imminent, alarming, disturbing, frightening, hazard, worrying, damaging, harmful, disquieting, perilous, detrimental, troubling.
  • Proper noun, singular
    vows.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Jeopardizing, jeopardising, Hampering, affecting, risk, Risking, Impairing, altering, incriminating, interfering, warning, hanging, Destroying, Entailing, constraining, challenging, Scaring, Inflicting, terrorizing, impeding, Afflicting, waiting, Impacting, minimizing, Brandishing, Hinting, causing, Infringing, Imperilling, Violating, Arising, targeting, defending, compromising, wearing, breaking, emerging, reaching, Attaining, weighing, leading, facing, Besetting, attacking, launching, prejudice, Prejudicing, bring, bringing, Committing, promising, sentence, bullying, pending, Implying, questioning, Carrying, reducing, Realizing, regarding, Involving, talking, Pledging, holding, limiting, lurking, waving, putting, Placing, Totaling, possible, Looming, calling, Vowing, seeking, Endangering, intimidating, 2.19, damaging.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    dangerous, threatened.
  • Proper noun, singular
    threatened.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Harming.

Antonyms for Threatening:

• adj.

  • menacing, ominous
    far, pleasant, distant, away, kind, remote, good, safe, nice.
  • Other antonyms:
    former, recent, beneficial, bygone, far-off, doubtful, contingent, ultimate, unlikely, eventual, advantageous, chimerical, problematical, improbable, nonhazardous, unalarming, unexpected, late, prosperous, past, clear, unthreatening.