threatening

English

Alternative forms

• threatning (obsolete)

Etymology

From threaten +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

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Verb

threatening

1. Present participle of threaten.

Adjective

threatening (comparative more threatening, superlative most threatening)

1. Presenting a threat; menacing; frightening.

Translations

presenting a threat

• Catalan: amenaçador (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 威脅的 (cmn), 威胁的 (cmn) (wẽixiéde)

• Finnish: uhkaava (fi)
• French: menaçant (fr)

• Greek: απειλητικός (el) (apielitikós)
• Portuguese: ameaçador (pt) m
• Romanian: amenințător (ro)
• Spanish: amenazador (es)

Derived terms

• threateningly
• threateningness
• nonthreatening

Noun

threatening (plural threatenings)

1. An act of threatening; a threat.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts IV:

     And nowe lorde beholde their threatenynges, and graunte unto thy servauntes wyth all confydence to speake thy worde.