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menacingadjective being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to comewarns that the emergence of new viruses is one of the most menacing developments we face baleful, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, ill, ill-boding, inauspicious, minatory, ominous, portentous, sinister, threatening black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dim, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich(chiefly Scottish), elegiac(also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray(also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, somber(or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretcheddiscouraging, disheartening, hopeless, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitiousill-fated, ill-starred, star-crossed, troubled, unfortunate, unluckyevil, malign, malignant unthreatening auspicious, benign, bright, encouraging, favorable, golden, heartening, hopeful, promising, propitious, prosperous involving potential loss or injuryfears that the unemployment rate may be reaching menacing proportions dangerous, grave, grievous, hazardous, jeopardizing, parlous, perilous, risky, serious, threatening, unhealthy, unsafe, venturesome dicey, insecure, precarious, treacherous, uncertainultrahazardouschance, haphazard, randomdistressing, sickening, unpleasantugly, wickedadverse, bad, baleful, baneful, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, malignant, nasty, noxious, pernicious, pestilentdeadly, deathly, destructive, dire, fatal, fateful, fell, killer, lethal, mortal, murderous harmless, innocent, innocuous, nonhazardous, nonthreatening, safe, unthreatening advantageous, beneficial, goodultrasafe menacingverbpresent participle of menaceto place in dangermenaced the children by leaving them in the car unattended adventuring, compromising, endangering, gambling (with), hazarding, imperiling(or imperilling), jeoparding, jeopardizing, periling(also perilling), risking, venturing intimidating, threateningexposingsubjectingchancing, wagering guarding, protecting, sheltering, shieldingpreserving, resuming, saving to remain poised to inflict harm, danger, or distress onstockpiles of nuclear weapons that continue to menace the inhabitants of this planet hanging (over), hovering (over), impending (over), overhanging, threatening endangering, hazarding, imperiling(or imperilling), jeopardizing, periling(also perilling) in the 15th century |