Usually means: Expressing intent to cause harm.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. threatening: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. threatening: Merriam-Webster
  3. threatening: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. threatening: Collins English Dictionary
  5. threatening: Vocabulary.com
  6. Threatening, threatening: Wordnik
  7. threatening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. threatening: Wiktionary
  9. threatening: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. threatening: Dictionary.com
  11. threatening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Threatening: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Threatening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. threatening: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. threatening: Rhymezone
  16. Threatening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. threatening: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. threatening: FreeDictionary.org
  19. threatening: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. threatening: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. threatening: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. threatening: Encyclopedia

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Presenting a threat, posing a likely risk of harm.
▸ adjective:  Making threats, making statements about a willingness to cause harm.
▸ noun:  An act of threatening; a threat.

Similar:
minatory, menacing, forbidding, minacious, alarming, sinister, baleful, sullen, ugly, ominous, more...

Opposite:
calming, reassuring, friendly, peaceful, safe

Types:
dangerous, harmful, risky, perilous, vicious, fierce, hostile, menacing, sinister, more...

Phrases:
life threatening, threatening letters, threatening behaviour, non threatening, Threatening the president of the United States, more...

Adjectives:
life, more, non, limb, face, ominous, sight, rash

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Similar:
minatory, menacing, forbidding, minacious, alarming, sinister, baleful, sullen, ugly, ominous, more...

Opposite:
calming, reassuring, friendly, peaceful, safe

Types:
dangerous, harmful, risky, perilous, vicious, fierce, hostile, menacing, sinister, more...

Phrases:
life threatening, threatening letters, threatening behaviour, non threatening, Threatening the president of the United States, Threatening government officials of the United States, more...

Adjectives:
life, more, non, limb, face, ominous, sight, rash

Colors:
    black,     dark red,     blood red,     charcoal,     deep purple, more...



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