| Main Entry: | threat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | warning; danger |
Synonyms: |
blackmail, bluff, commination, fix, foreboding, foreshadowing, fulmination, hazard, impendence, intimidation, menace, omen, peril, portent, presage, risk, thunder, writing on the wall |
| Concept: | Threat. |
| Category: | 2. Diffusive Sympathetic Affections |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
threat, menace; defiance; abuse, minacity, intimidation; denunciation; fulmination; commination (curse); gathering clouds (warning).
-verbs
threat, threaten; menace; snarl, growl, gnarl, mutter, bark, bully., defy; intimidate; keep in terrorem, hold up in terrorem, hold out in terrorem; shake the fist at, double the fist at, clinch the fist at; thunder, talk big, fulminate, use big words, bluster, look daggers.
-adjectives
threatening, menacing; minatory, minacious; comminatory, abusive; in terrorem; ominous (predicting) ; defiant; under the ban.
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| Main Entry: | challenge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dispute, question |
Synonyms: |
claiming, confrontation, dare, defiance, demanding, demur, interrogation, objection, protest, provocation, remonstrance, summons to contest, test, threat, trial, ultimatum |
Antonyms: |
agree, answer, decide, win |
| Main Entry: | coercion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compulsion, pressure |
Synonyms: |
browbeating, bullying, constraint, duress, force, intimidation, menace, menacing, persuasion, restraint, strong-arm tactic, threat, threatening, violence |
| Main Entry: | danger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hazard, troublesome situation |
Synonyms: |
clouds, crisis, double trouble, dynamite, emergency, endangerment, exigency, exposure, hot potato, insecurity, instability, jeopardy, menace, peril, pitfall, possibility, precariousness, precipice, probability, risk, risky business, slipperiness, storm, thin ice, threat, uncertainty, venture, vulnerability |
Antonyms: |
care, carefulness, guard, preservation, safety, security |
| Main Entry: | hazard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | danger |
Synonyms: |
double trouble, dynamite, endangerment, hot potato, imperilment, jeopardy, peril, risk, risky business, thin ice, threat |
Antonyms: |
protection, safeguard, safety |
| Main Entry: | menace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | danger; pest |
Synonyms: |
annoyance, caution, commination, hazard, intimidation, jeopardy, nuisance, peril, plague, risk, scare, threat, thunder, trouble, troublemaker, warning |
Antonyms: |
aid, assistance, help |
| Main Entry: | portent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indication, forewarning |
Synonyms: |
augury, bodement, boding, caution, clue, foreboding, foreshadowing, foretoken, funny feeling, handwriting on the wall, harbinger, hunch, omen, premonition, presage, presentiment, prognostic, prognostication, sign, sinking feeling, threat, vibes, warning |
| Main Entry: | warning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | notice of possible occurrence |
Synonyms: |
Mayday, SOS, admonition, advice, alarm, alert, augury, caution, caveat, distress signal, example, exhortation, fore, foretoken, forewarning, guidance, handwriting on wall, heads up, hint, indication, information, injunction, intimation, lesson, look out, notification, omen, portent, prediction, premonition, presage, recommendation, sign, signal, suggestion, threat, tip, tip-off, token, watch-it, wink, word, word to the wise |
| Main Entry: | fighting words |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | threatening words |
Synonyms: |
taunt, terms of disparagement, threat |