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Adjective Being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come menacing ominous sinister baleful dire inauspicious foreboding ill portentous black brooding dark doomy forbidding glowering direful evil gloomy heavy minatory thunderous ugly unpropitious winteryUK wintryUS bullying dangerous ill-boding minacious pessimistic unfavorableUS unfavourableUK unlucky unpromising bodeful comminatory grim ill-fated intimidatory terrorisingUK terrorizingUS aggressive apocalyptic baneful close fateful forthcoming hostile impendent loury lowering lowery nasty near overhanging portending scowling upcoming at hand “Luck was with the golfers as the threatening weather never really materialized.” Adjective Having a hostile or deliberately frightening quality or manner bullying intimidating menacing admonitory alarming baleful fearsome forbidding frightening mean-looking scary terrifying warning cautionary comminatory minacious minatorial minatory “Agricola, stated Tacitus, invaded Caledonia because the northern tribes were acting in a threatening manner.” Adjective Giving signs of immediate occurrence imminent impending looming pending “… economists warning of a threatening recession.” Adjective Involving potential loss or injury dangerous grave grievous hazardous jeopardisingUK jeopardizingUS menacing parlous perilous risky serious unhealthy unsafe venturesome “… threatening rocks lined that narrow stretch of the river through which we would be rafting.” Verb Present participle for warn, pressure bullying cowing intimidating menacing terrorisingUK terrorizingUS browbeating pressurisingUK pressurizingUS scaring frightening warning alarming abusing admonishing blackmailing blustering cautioning comminating enforcing forewarning fulminating growling scowling snarling spooking tormenting leaning on flexing muscles issuing threats to looking daggers making threat making threats against making threats to pushing around threatening to harm threatening to kill walking heavy shaking fist at “I am a non-violent person and I would not intentionally threaten Mike or anyone else for that matter.” Verb Present participle for to remain poised to inflict harm, danger, or distress on overhanging impending looming advancing approaching brewing clouding compromising hanging over hovering hovering over impending over lurking pressuring coming on creeping up hanging over someone hanging over someone's head “… the powerful hurricane continues to threaten the southern coastline.” Verb Present participle for to make a threat against someone endangering imperillingUK imperilingUS jeopardisingUK jeopardizingUS periling making vulnerable exposing to danger putting at risk putting on the line putting in jeopardy driving a nail into the coffin of “Oil drilling would likely threaten and compromise B.C. industries, such as tourism, and commercial and recreational fishing.” Verb Present participle for seem likely to produce an unpleasant or unwelcome result presaging promising announcing auguring boding foreshadowing foretelling heralding portending prophesying indicating meaning signallingUK signalingUS signifying spelling warning of betokening foreboding foretokening harbingering amounting to giving a warning of pointing to adding up to “There were heavy downpours even before Scotland's biggest rock and pop festival kicked off and the rain threatened to upstage the performers.” Find more words! 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