minatory

  • 71menacing — adjective a menacing driver forced me to take the nearest exit Syn: threatening, ominous, intimidating, frightening, terrifying, alarming, forbidding, black, thunderous, glowering, unfriendly, hostile, sinister, baleful, warning; formal minatory… …

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  • 72ominous — adjective ominous clouds Syn: threatening, menacing, baleful, forbidding, sinister, inauspicious, unpropitious, unfavorable, unpromising; portentous, foreboding, fateful, premonitory; black, dark, gloomy; formal minatory; literary direful; rare… …

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  • 73sinister — adjective 1) there was a sinister undertone in his words Syn: menacing, threatening, ominous, forbidding, baleful, frightening, alarming, disturbing, disquieting, dark, black; formal minatory; literary direful 2) a sinister motive Syn …

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  • 74threatening — adjective 1) a threatening letter Syn: menacing, intimidating, bullying, frightening, hostile; formal minatory 2) banks of threatening clouds Syn: ominous, sinister, menacing, alarming, portentous, dark …

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  • 75admonitory — adj warning, monitory, cautionary, precautionary, premonitory, forewarning; threatening, ominous, menacing, minatory …

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  • 76bad — adj 1. virtueless, unrighteous, godless, impious, ungodly; immoral, amoral, nonmoral, unmoral, unprincipled, reprobate; corrupt, depraved, perverted, profligate, dissolute, libertine, abandoned, licentious; unscrupulous, dishonest, crooked,… …

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  • 77hazardous — adj 1. dangerous, fraught with danger, perilous, jeopardous, venturesome, dire, Archaic. parlous, Sl. hairy; threatening, disquieting, menacing, minatory, ominous, inauspicious, unfavorable, boding ill; risky, insecure, precarious, unsafe,… …

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  • 78ill-fated — adj 1. star crossed, ill starred, ill omened, doomed, born under an evil star; unlucky, luckless, unfortunate, hapless; untoward, unfavorable, adverse, contrary, unpropitious, inauspicious; ill boding, ominous, sinister, threatening, portentous,… …

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  • 79lowering — adj 1. overcast, cloudy, clouded over, overclouded; gloomy, dismal, dreary, bleak, tenebrous, murky, Archaic. caliginous; shadowy, dim, gray, dusky, darkish, dark, pitch dark, black, pitch black, Literary. darkling; ominous, menacing, minatory,… …

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  • 80malevolent — adj 1. malign, malignant, malicious, maleficent, malefic, evil intentioned, evil disposed, evil minded, unfriendly, obnoxious, ill natured, churlish, surly, disobliging, ungracious; spiteful, hateful, invidious, ill willed, ill disposed,… …

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