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| Main Entry: |
menacing
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intimidating, ominous |
| Synonyms: | alarming, approaching, dangerous, frightening, imminent, impending, intimidatory, looming, louring, lowering, minacious, minatory, overhanging, threatening |
| Antonyms: | aiding, assisting, helping, unthreatening |
| Main Entry: | minatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | threatening |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, alarming, apocalyptic, at hand, baleful, baneful, black, bullying, cautionary, close, comminatory, dangerous, dire, fateful, forthcoming, grim, ill-boding, imminent, impendent, impending, inauspicious, intimidatory, looming, loury, lowering, lowery, minacious, near, overhanging, portending, portentous, scowling, sinister, terrorizing, ugly*, unlucky, unpropitious, unsafe, upcoming, warning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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