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View usage for: (θretənɪŋ) 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]You can describe someone's behaviour as threatening when you think that they are trying to harm you. The police could have charged them with threatening behaviour. She said Denny had received a threatening letter and asked me if I sent it. Synonyms: menacing, bullying, intimidatory, terrorizing More Synonyms of threatening threateningly adverb [usually ADVERB with verb] 'This ain't no affair of yours, boy!' McClosky said threateningly. 2. See also life-threatening, threaten More Synonyms of threatening Examples of 'threatening' in a sentencethreatening In other languagesthreatening British English: threatening / ˈθrɛtnɪŋ/ ADJECTIVE You can describe someone's behaviour as threatening when you think that they are trying to harm you. ...a threatening phone call. - American English: threatening
- Arabic: تَهْدِيدِيّ
- Brazilian Portuguese: ameaçador
- Chinese: 胁迫的
- Croatian: prijeteći
- Czech: výhružný
- Danish: truende
- Dutch: dreigend
- European Spanish: amenazador
- Finnish: uhkaava
- French: menaçant
- German: drohend
- Greek: απειλητικός
- Italian: minaccioso
- Japanese: 脅すような
- Korean: 위협적인
- Norwegian: truende
- Polish: groźny
- European Portuguese: ameaçador
- Romanian: amenințător
- Russian: угрожающий
- Latin American Spanish: amenazador
- Swedish: hotfull
- Thai: ที่ขู่เข็ญ
- Turkish: tehdit edici
- Ukrainian: загрозливий
- Vietnamese: đe dọa
Chinese translation of 'threatening' adj - [behaviour, person, letter]
威胁(脅)的 (wēixié de)
vi - [storm, danger]
似将(將)发(發)生 (sì jiāng fāshēng)
vt - (= make a threat against) [person]
威胁(脅) (wēixié) - (= endanger) [life, livelihood]
使受到威胁(脅) (shǐ shòudào wēixié) to threaten sb with a knife/gun 用刀/枪(槍)威胁(脅)某人 (yòng dāo/qiāng wēixié mǒurén) to be threatened with imprisonment/extinction 受到监(監)禁/覆灭(滅)的威胁(脅) (shòudào jiānjìn/fùmiè de wēixié) to threaten to do sth (= promise) 扬(揚)言做某事 (yángyán zuò mǒushì) (= seem likely) 可能发(發)生某事 (kěnéng fāshēng mǒushì)
The police should have charged them with threatening behaviour. Synonyms bullying intimidatory terrorizing comminatory a threatening atmosphere of rising tension and stress Synonyms Opposites promising , encouraging , reassuring , bright , comforting , favourable , auspicious , propitious Additional synonymsDefinition harmful, menacing, or vindictive He had a baleful look. Synonyms menacing, threatening, dangerous, frightening, evil, deadly, forbidding, intimidating, harmful, sinister, ominous, malignant, hurtful, vindictive, pernicious (formal), malevolent, noxious, venomous, ruinous, intimidatory, minatory, maleficent, bodeful, louring or lowering, minacious Definition severe and threatening in appearance or manner There was something severe and forbidding about her face. Synonyms threatening, severe, frightening, hostile, grim, menacing, sinister, daunting, ominous, unfriendly, foreboding, baleful, bodeful Definition unfavourable and worrying They painted a grim picture of growing crime. Synonyms terrible, shocking (informal), severe, harsh, forbidding, horrible, formidable, sinister, ghastly, hideous, gruesome (slang), grisly, horrid, frightful, godawful Additional synonymsDefinition unlucky The meeting got off to an inauspicious start. Synonyms unpromising, bad, unfortunate, discouraging, unlucky, ominous, unfavourable, black, untoward, ill-omened, unpropitious, bodeful Definition threatening or menacing a heavy and minatory silence Synonyms threatening, dangerous, menacing, baleful, minacious, minatorial Definition threatening or suggesting evil or harm There was something sinister about him that she found disturbing. Synonyms threatening, evil, menacing, forbidding, dire, ominous, malign, disquieting, malignant, malevolent, baleful, injurious, bodeful |