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| Main Entry: | threatening |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | menacing, ominous |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, alarming, apocalyptic, at hand, baleful, baneful, black, bullying, close, dangerous, dire, fateful, forthcoming, grim, ill-boding, imminent, impending, inauspicious, looming, lowering, near, portentous, sinister, ugly, unlucky, unpropitious, unsafe, upcoming, warning, cautionary, comminatory, impendent, intimidatory, loury, lowery, minacious, minatory, overhanging, portending, scowling, terrorizing |
| Antonyms: | nice, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | threaten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | warn, pressure |
| Synonyms: | abuse, admonish, augur, blackmail, bluster, browbeat, bully, caution, cow, enforce, forebode, forewarn, fulminate, growl, intimidate, menace, portend, presage, scare, scowl, snarl, spook, terrorize, torment, comminate, flex muscles, look daggers, make threat, pressurize, push around, shake fist at, walk heavy |
| Antonyms: | alleviate, help, protect, relieve |
| Main Entry: | threaten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | endanger |
| Synonyms: | advance, approach, come on, forebode, foreshadow, frighten, imperil, jeopardize, loom, overhang, portend, presage, warn, be dangerous, be gathering, be imminent, be in the air, be in the offing, be on the horizon, brewing, hang over*, impend, put at risk, put in jeopardy |
| Antonyms: | guard, protect, save |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | baleful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | menacing |
| Synonyms: | calamitous, deadly, dire, evil, foreboding, harmful, hurtful, injurious, malevolent, malignant, noxious, ominous, pernicious, ruinous, sinister, threatening, venomous, vindictive, woeful |
| Notes: | something is baleful that intends or portends harm or injury; something is baneful that produces harm or injury - thus, a glance may be baleful, an herb or poison baneful |
| Antonyms: | advantageous, auspicious, favorable, good, helping, promising |
| 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: | creepy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, scary |
| Synonyms: | awful, direful, disgusting, disturbing, dreadful, eerie, frightening, ghoulish, gruesome, hair-raising, horrible, itchy, macabre, menacing, nightmarish, ominous, sinister, terrifying, threatening, unpleasant, weird, itching, shuddersome |
| Antonyms: | good, nice, normal, pleasant, pleasing, unscary |
| Main Entry: | dangerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hazardous, troubling |
| Synonyms: | alarming, bad, breakneck*, chancy, critical, deadly, delicate, dynamite, exposed, fatal, formidable, hairy*, heavy*, hot*, impending, impregnable, insecure, loaded, malignant, menacing, mortal, nasty, perilous, portentous, precarious, pressing, queasy, risky, serious, serpentine, shaky, speculative, terrible, thorny*, threatening, ticklish*, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, ugly*, unhealthy, unsafe, unstable, urgent, viperous, vulnerable, wicked, dangersome, jeopardous, on collision course, parlous |
| Antonyms: | careful, guarded, safe, secure, untroubled, unhazardous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fierce |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violent, menacing |
| Synonyms: | angry, animal, ape, awful, barbarous, bloodthirsty, blustery, boisterous, bold, brutal, cruel, cutthroat*, dangerous, enraged, fell, feral, ferocious, fiery, frightening, furious, horrible, impetuous, infuriated, intense, malevolent, malign, murderous, passionate, powerful, primitive, raging, raving, relentless, savage, stormy, strong, tempestuous, terrible, threatening, truculent, tumultous/tumultuous, uncontrollable, untamed, vehement, venomous, vicious, wild, brutish, flipped, howling, tigerish |
| Antonyms: | calm, gentle, kind, meek, nonviolent, peaceful, tame, tender, unthreatening |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forbidding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ominous, daunting |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, disagreeable, dour, foreboding, frightening, grim, hostile, menacing, odious, offensive, repellent, repulsive, sinister, threatening, tough, ugly, unapproachable, unfriendly, unpleasant, glowering, off-putting |
| Antonyms: | approachable, friendly, undaunting |
| Main Entry: | hopeless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | futile, pessimistic |
| Synonyms: | bad, cynical, dejected, demoralized, despairing, desperate, despondent, disconsolate, discouraging, downhearted, fatal, forlorn, gone*, helpless, ill-fated, impossible, impracticable, incurable, irreparable, irrevocable, lost, menacing, pointless, sad, sinister, threatening, tragic, unavailing, unfortunate, useless, vain, woebegone, beyond recall, goner, in despair, irredeemable, irreversible, no-win, past hope, shot down, sunk, unachievable, unmitigable, up the creek, worsening |
| Antonyms: | auspicious, bright, encouraging, expectant, hopeful, optimistic, promising, propitious, rosy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imminent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | at hand, on the way |
| Synonyms: | approaching, close, coming, expectant, following, forthcoming, gathering, immediate, impending, ineluctable, inescapable, inevitable, likely, looming, menacing, near, nearing, next, nigh, possible, probable, threatening, unavoidable, about to happen, brewing, fast-approaching, handwriting-on-the-wall, in store, in the air, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, inevasible, on its way, on the horizon, on the verge, overhanging, see it coming, to come, unescapable |
| Antonyms: | distant, doubtful, far, future, later |
| Main Entry: | impending |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | forthcoming |
| Synonyms: | approaching, at hand, coming, gathering, imminent, looming, menacing, near, nearing, ominous, proximate, threatening, brewing, handwriting-on-the-wall, hovering, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, looking to, on the horizon, overhanging, portending, see it coming, waiting to |
| Antonyms: | distant, later, never, remote |
| Main Entry: | inauspicious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ominous, unpromising |
| Synonyms: | bad, baleful, baneful, black, dire, discouraging, evil, fateful, foreboding, ill-boding, impending, inopportune, sinister, threatening, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious, untimely, untoward, ill-omened, unpromising |
| Antonyms: | auspicious, favorable, fortunate, lucky, promising |
| Main Entry: | menacing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intimidating, ominous |
| Synonyms: | alarming, approaching, dangerous, frightening, imminent, impending, looming, lowering, threatening, intimidatory, louring, minacious, minatory, overhanging |
| Antonyms: | assisting, helping, aiding, unthreatening |
| Main Entry: | nearing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | approaching |
| Synonyms: | coming, forthcoming, imminent, impending, oncoming, threatening, upcoming, advancing, approximating |
| Antonyms: | gone, past, departing, leaving |
| Main Entry: | ominous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | menacing, foreboding |
| Synonyms: | apocalyptic, baleful, baneful, dangerous, dark, dire, direful, dismal, doomed, fateful, fearful, forbidding, gloomy, grim, haunting, hostile, ill-boding, ill-fated, impending, inauspicious, inhospitable, lowering, malign, perilous, portentous, prescient, prophetic, sinister, suggestive, threatening, unfriendly, unlucky, unpropitious, augural, clouded, doomful, malefic, malificent, minatory, precursive, premonitory, presaging, unpromising |
| Antonyms: | auspicious, happy, lucky, promising, propitious |
| Main Entry: | overcast |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cloudy, darkened |
| Synonyms: | dark, dismal, dreary, dull, gray, hazy, leaden, lowering, murky, nebulous, oppressive, somber, sunless, threatening, clouded, clouded over, not clear, not fair |
| Antonyms: | bright, clear, sunny |
| Main Entry: | perilous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
| Synonyms: | chancy, delicate, dicey*, dynamite, exposed, hairy*, hazardous, insecure, loaded, precarious, risky, rugged, shaky, threatening, ticklish, touchy, treacherous, uncertain, unhealthy, unsafe, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsure, vulnerable, wicked*, Russian roulette, on thin ice, playing with fire, touch and go |
| Antonyms: | safe, secure, ok |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | portentous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exciting; foreboding |
| Synonyms: | alarming, amazing, apocalyptic, astounding, destined, doomed, exhilarating, extraordinary, fated, fateful, haunting, ill-boding, ill-fated, impending, important, inauspicious, inspiring, intriguing, ominous, phenomenal, prophetic, remarkable, suggestive, threatening, thrilling, augural, premonitory |
| Main Entry: | rebellious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disobedient, unmanageable |
| Synonyms: | alienated, bellicose, contumacious, defiant, difficult, disaffected, disloyal, disobedient, disorderly, dissident, factious, fractious, iconoclastic, incorrigible, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, obstinate, pugnacious, quarrelsome, radical, rebel, recalcitrant, refractory, resistant, restless, revolutionary, riotous, seditious, threatening, turbulent, ungovernable, unruly, warring, anarchistic, attacking, individualistic, insurrectionary, rioting, sabotaging, treasonable |
| Antonyms: | compliant, governable, manageable, obedient |
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