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say it: THRET-uhnd
threatened is an adjective meaning "(of flora or fauna) likely in the near future to become endangered". It carries one recorded sense.
(of flora or fauna) likely in the near future to become endangered
“the spotted owl is a threatened species, not yet an endangered one”
plant
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for threatened come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.