Sekirov Dictionary

threatening

/ˈθɹɛtə.nɪŋ/

adjective 2
noun 1
forms 3

adjective2

•
likely to hurt someone or to cause damage
- Never turn your back to someone who is displaying threatening behavior.
Making threats, making statements about a willingness to cause harm.

noun1

•
An act of threatening; a threat.
- And nowe lorde beholde their threatenyngꝭ / and graunte vnto thy servauntꝭ wyth all confydence to speake thy worde. — 1526

forms

threatenings · more threatening · most threatening

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