| 释义 |
View usage for: (menɪsɪŋ) adjectiveIf someone or something looks menacing, they give you a feeling that they are likely to cause you harm or put you in danger. The strong dark eyebrows give his face an oddly menacing look. He moved his menacing bulk closer to the table. The wide river looked less menacing when flanked by the warm yellow houses. Synonyms: threatening, dangerous, alarming, frightening More Synonyms of menacing menacingly adverb [usually ADVERB after verb] A group of men suddenly emerged from a doorway and moved menacingly forward to blockher way. Examples of 'menacing' in a sentencemenacing In other languagesmenacing British English: menacing ADJECTIVE If someone or something looks menacing, they give you a feeling that they are likely to cause you harm or put you in danger. The strong dark eyebrows give his face an oddly menacing look. - American English: menacing
- Brazilian Portuguese: ameaçador
- Chinese: 威胁的
- European Spanish: amenazador
- French: menaçant
- German: drohend
- Italian: minaccioso
- Japanese: 脅すような
- Korean: 위협적인
- European Portuguese: ameaçador
- Latin American Spanish: amenazador
Chinese translation of 'menacing' adj - [person, gesture, expression]
凶恶(惡)的 (xiōng'è de)
n - (c) (= source of danger)
威胁(脅) (wēixié) (种(種), zhǒng) - (u) (= feeling of danger)
危险(險) (wēixiǎn) - (inf, = nuisance)
to be a menace 讨(討)厌(厭)的东(東)西 (tǎoyàn de dōngxi)
vt - (= threaten)
威胁(脅) (wēixié)
His bushy eyebrows gave his face a menacing look. Synonyms looming intimidatory bodeful louring or lowering minacious Opposites promising , encouraging , favourable , auspicious Additional synonymsThe disease has spread at an alarming rate. Synonyms frightening, shocking, scaring, disturbing, distressing, terrifying, appalling, startling, dreadful, horrifying, menacing, intimidating, dismaying, scary (informal), fearful, daunting, fearsome, unnerving, hair-raising, bloodcurdling Definition 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 likely or able to cause injury or harm a dangerous undertaking Synonyms perilous, threatening, risky, hazardous, exposed, alarming, vulnerable, nasty, ugly, menacing, insecure, hairy (slang), unsafe, precarious, treacherous, breakneck, parlous (archaic), fraught with danger, chancy (informal), unchancy (Scottish) Additional synonymsDefinition 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 The latest crime statistics are frightening. Synonyms terrifying, shocking (informal), alarming, appalling, startling, dreadful, horrifying, menacing, intimidating, dismaying, scary (informal), fearful, daunting, fearsome, unnerving, spooky (informal), hair-raising, baleful, spine-chilling, bloodcurdling He was a huge, intimidating figure. Synonyms frightening, alarming, terrifying, menacing, dismaying, scary (informal), daunting, fearsome, unnerving, spooky (informal), hair-raising, baleful, bloodcurdling Definition threatening or menacing a heavy and minatory silence Synonyms threatening, dangerous, menacing, baleful, minacious, minatorial Definition warning of evil There was an ominous silence at the other end of the phone. Synonyms threatening, menacing, sinister, dark, forbidding, grim, fateful, foreboding, unpromising, portentous, baleful, inauspicious, premonitory, unpropitious, minatory, bodeful |