threatensome

English

Etymology

From threaten +‎ -some.

Adjective

threatensome (comparative more threatensome, superlative most threatensome)

1. (dialectal) Characterised by threat or threatening.
   • 1902, Henry Mills Alden, ‎Thomas Bucklin Wells, ‎Lee Foster Hartman, Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 105, page 471:

     To be sure, the weather had looked "a bit threatensome," but every self-respecting woman had defied the elements in a much beribboned and befeathered head-gear.

   • 1925, Arthur Bernard Cook, Zeus, page 712:

     The lightning-god was a suitable adornment of the light-giving lamp, and his threatensome attitude an excellent apotrópaion.

Translations

characterised by threat — see also threatening

• Spanish: amenazante (es)