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threateningadjective giving signs of immediate occurrenceeconomists warning of a threatening recession imminent, impending, looming, pending approaching, coming, forthcoming, future, near, nearing, oncoming, upcomingbrewing, gatheringlikely, possible, probableinevitable, unavoidableapocalyptic(also apocalyptical), lowering, menacing, ominous, portentousanticipated, awaited, expected, foreseen, predicted around the corner distant, far-off, remoteeventual, ultimatebygone, former, pastlate, recent being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to comea threatening silence followed the loud thump in the adjoining motel room baleful, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, ill, ill-boding, inauspicious, menacing, minatory, ominous, portentous, sinister 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 injurythreatening rocks lined that narrow stretch of the river through which we would be rafting dangerous, grave, grievous, hazardous, jeopardizing, menacing, parlous, perilous, risky, serious, 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 threateningverbpresent participle of threatento remain poised to inflict harm, danger, or distress onthe powerful hurricane continues to threaten the southern coastline hanging (over), hovering (over), impending (over), menacing, overhanging endangering, hazarding, imperiling(or imperilling), jeopardizing, periling(also perilling) in 1530 |