Associations to the word «Threatening»
Noun
- Complication
- Rupture
- Illness
- Hemorrhage
- Clot
- Injury
- Diarrhea
- Nausea
- Infection
- Cursing
- Overdose
- Vomiting
- Anemia
- Life
- Swearing
- Symptom
- Bleeding
- Emergency
- Behaviour
- Coma
- Prognosis
- Fetus
- Severity
- Syndrome
- Pneumonia
- Pregnancy
- Abnormality
- Condition
- Danger
- Beating
- Disease
- Situation
- Liver
- Patient
- Violence
- Analog
- Threat
- Medication
- Blackmail
- Airway
- Lung
- Stimulus
- Seizure
- Suicide
- Behavior
- Harm
- Diabetes
- Destruction
- Arrest
- Burn
- Tone
- Allergy
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
THREATENING, verb. Present participle of threaten
THREATENING, adjective. Presenting a threat; menacing; frightening.
THREATENING, noun. An act of threatening; a threat.
Dictionary definition
THREATENING, adjective. 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".
THREATENING, adjective. Darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.