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threatening is an adjective meaning "threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments". It carries 2 recorded senses.
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
“a baleful look”
“forbidding thunderclouds”
“his tone became menacing”
“ominous rumblings of discontent”
“sinister storm clouds”
“a sinister smile”
“his threatening behavior”
“ugly black clouds”
“the situation became ugly”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for threatening 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.