What is another word for threatening?
907 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ θɹˈɛtənɪŋ], [ θɹˈɛtənɪŋ], [ θ_ɹ_ˈɛ_t_ə_n_ɪ_ŋ]Table of Contents
Similar words for threatening:
- aggressive (adjective)
- baleful (adjective)
- bellicose (adjective)
- black (adjective)
- creepy (adjective)
- dangerous (adjective)
- dark (adjective)
- destined (adjective)
- disturbing (adjective)
- exigent (adjective)
- fierce (adjective)
- forbidding (adjective)
- formidable (adjective)
- grave (adjective)
- hopeless (adjective)
- ill (adjective)
- imminent (adjective)
- impending (adjective)
- inauspicious (adjective)
- life-threatening (adjective)
- menacing (adjective)
- menacing, ominous (adjective)
- nearing (adjective)
- ominous (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- overcast (adjective)
- perilous (adjective)
- portentous (adjective)
- rebellious (adjective)
- serious (adjective)
- sinister (adjective)
- stormy (adjective)
- threatening (adjective)
- unadvantageous (adjective)
- unfavorable (adjective)
- unhospitable (adjective)
- unpropitious (adjective)
- unsafe (adjective)
- unsettling (adjective)
- upsetting (adjective)
- warning (adjective)
- alarming (noun)
- cloudy (noun)
- coercion (noun)
- commination (noun)
- forbidding (noun)
- heavy (noun)
- intimidation (noun)
- lowering (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- approaching (verb)
- endangering (verb)
- frightening (verb)
- threatening (verb)
- warning (verb)
- other synonyms
- discouraging
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Threatening:
adj.
• aggressive (adjective) • baleful (adjective) • bellicose (adjective) • black (adjective) • creepy (adjective)- hairraising,
- more shuddersome,
- dis gusting,
- most shuddersome,
- most itching,
- dis-gusting,
- more itching,
- un-pleasant,
- hair raising,
- un pleasant.
- precarious,
- treacherous,
- perilous,
- dangersome,
- unsafe,
- insecure,
- hazardous,
- risky,
- Jeopardous,
- on collision course,
- parlous,
- shaky.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- more daunting,
- most daunting,
- dis maying,
- more dismaying,
- re-doubtable,
- most dismaying,
- re doubtable,
- dis-maying.
- irremediable,
- helpless,
- black,
- past hope,
- beyond recall,
- unmitigable,
- in despair,
- irredeemable,
- shot down,
- up the creek,
- goner,
- no-win,
- unachievable.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- unsettling,
- in the air,
- anarchistic,
- minacious,
- perturbing,
- unfavorable,
- blackhearted,
- exigent,
- unadvantageous,
- that will be,
- grave,
- ominous,
- brutish,
- nocent,
- on a limb,
- serious,
- fierce,
- creepy,
- malefic,
- raining cats and dogs,
- menacing,
- on the horizon,
- disturbing,
- impending,
- Precursive,
- predesigned,
- Doomful,
- squally,
- fast-approaching,
- on its way,
- in view,
- see it coming,
- to come,
- shuddersome,
- imminent,
- in the wind,
- Inevasible,
- dark,
- in store,
- malificent,
- unescapable,
- on the verge,
- Intimidatory,
- baleful,
- bellicose,
- that is to be,
- of great consequence,
- see coming,
- ill-omened,
- louring,
- warning,
- riproaring,
- waiting to,
- aggressive,
- destined,
- on thin ice,
- in the cards,
- way the ball bounces,
- aper,
- Discommodious,
- premonitory,
- rebellious,
- in prospect,
- upsetting,
- life and death,
- hanging over,
- sinister,
- illomened,
- handwriting-on-the-wall,
- stormy,
- dangerous,
- tigerish,
- Stormful,
- hanging by thread,
- playing with fire,
- life-threatening,
- formidable,
- unpromising,
- off-putting,
- touch and go,
- troublous,
- battleful,
- in the offing.
- 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.
- 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.
- unamusing,
- of consequence,
- playing hard ball,
- no laughing matter,
- no joke,
- smoking,
- unhumorous,
- strictly business,
- sobering,
- out for blood.
- more riproaring,
- most riproaring,
- most blustering,
- raining cats dogs,
- most stormful,
- more storming,
- more blustering,
- most storming,
- squallier,
- more stormful,
- squalliest.
- forewarning,
- Browbeating,
- foreboding,
- admonishing,
- intimidating,
- Hinting,
- frightening,
- tormenting,
- scary.
- 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.
n.
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- disastrous,
- damaging,
- harmful,
- injurious,
- ruinous.
- threatenings,
- menacings,
- strongarm tactic,
- bullyings,
- browbeatings,
- strongarm tactics,
- strong arm tactic.
- ex-communication,
- male-diction,
- ex communications,
- ex communication,
- male diction,
- male-dictions,
- ex-communications,
- threat punishment,
- male dictions.
v.
• approaching (verb) • endangering (verb) • frightening (verb) • threatening (verb) • warning (verb)Other synonyms:
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- inclement,
- unseasonable,
- humid,
- approaching,
- sultry,
- unseasonably,
- muggy,
- Nearing,
- sunless.
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- fair.
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- foul.
- 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:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
intimidating, menacing, ominous, Endangering, threatens.
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Noun, singular or mass
menace.
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Adjective
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Forward Entailment
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Adjective
threat.
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Noun, singular or mass
threat.
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Adjective
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
life-threatening.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
alarming, damaging, danger, detrimental, disquieting, disturbing, endangered, frightening, harmful, hazard, imminent, impending, intimidate, perilous, troubling, worrying, threat-related.
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Proper noun, singular
vows.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
affecting, altering, attacking, breaking, bring, bringing, bullying, calling, causing, challenging, compromising, constraining, damaging, defending, emerging, facing, hanging, holding, impeding, incriminating, interfering, intimidating, launching, leading, limiting, lurking, pending, possible, prejudice, promising, putting, questioning, reaching, reducing, regarding, risk, seeking, sentence, talking, waiting, warning, waving, wearing, weighing, Afflicting, Arising, Attaining, Besetting, Brandishing, Carrying, Destroying, Endangering, Entailing, Hampering, Hinting, Impacting, Impairing, Imperilling, Implying, Inflicting, Infringing, Involving, Jeopardizing, Looming, Placing, Pledging, Realizing, Risking, Scaring, Violating, Vowing, Totaling, Committing, Prejudicing, minimizing, targeting, terrorizing, jeopardising, 2.19.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
dangerous, threatened.
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Proper noun, singular
threatened.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
Harming.
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Adjective
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