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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 is pronounced /ˈθɹɛtənd/ — THRET-uhnd. 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.