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| Main Entry: | threat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | warning; danger |
| Synonyms: | blackmail, bluff, commination, fix, foreboding, fulmination, hazard, intimidation, menace, omen, peril, portent, presage, risk, thunder, writing on the wall*, foreshadowing, impendence |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | challenge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dispute, question |
| Synonyms: | confrontation, dare, defiance, demanding, demur, interrogation, objection, protest, provocation, remonstrance, test, threat, trial, ultimatum, claiming, summons to contest |
| Antonyms: | agree, answer, decide, win |
| Main Entry: | coercion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compulsion, pressure |
| Synonyms: | bullying, constraint, duress, force, intimidation, menace, menacing, persuasion, restraint, threat, threatening, violence, browbeating, strong-arm tactic |
| Main Entry: | danger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hazard, troublesome situation |
| Synonyms: | crisis, dynamite, emergency, exigency, exposure, insecurity, instability, jeopardy, menace, peril, pitfall, possibility, precipice, probability, risk, storm, threat, uncertainty, venture, clouds, double trouble, endangerment, hot potato, precariousness, risky business, slipperiness, thin ice, vulnerability |
| Antonyms: | care, guard, preservation, safety, security, carefulness |
| 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: | warning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | notice of possible occurrence |
| Synonyms: | admonition, advice, alarm, alert, augury, caution, caveat, distress signal, example, exhortation, fore, guidance, hint, indication, information, injunction, intimation, lesson, look out*, notification, omen, portent, prediction, premonition, presage, recommendation, sign, signal, suggestion, threat, tip, token, wink, word, word to the wise, Mayday, SOS, foretoken, forewarning, handwriting on wall, heads up, tip-off, watch-it |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fighting words |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | threatening words |
| Synonyms: | taunt, threat, terms of disparagement |
| Main Entry: | scare tactics |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | methods used to scare |
| Synonyms: | ambush, bullying, coercion, duress, force, intimidation, persuasion, pressure, reign of terror, threat, arm-twisting, strong-arm tactics, terrorism, terrorization |
| Main Entry: | hazard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | danger |
| Synonyms: | dynamite, jeopardy, peril, risk, threat, double trouble, endangerment, hot potato, imperilment, risky business, thin ice |
| Antonyms: | protection, safeguard, safety |
| Main Entry: | portent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indication, forewarning |
| Synonyms: | augury, caution, clue, foreboding, funny feeling*, handwriting on the wall, harbinger, hunch, omen, premonition, presage, presentiment, sign, threat, warning, bodement, boding, foreshadowing, foretoken, prognostic, prognostication, sinking feeling, vibes |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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