Antonyms for threatening
ˈθrɛt n ɪŋthreat·en·ing

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1. threatening

   Imminent, from the Latin, with the sense of projecting over, signifies liable to happen at once, as some calamity, dangerous and close at hand. Impending, also from the Latin, with the sense of hanging over, is closely akin to imminent, but somewhat less emphatic. Imminent is more immediate, impending more remote, threatening more contingent. An impending evil is almost sure to happen at some uncertain time, perhaps very near; an imminent peril is one liable to befall very speedily; a threatening peril may be near or remote, but always with hope that it may be averted.

   Antonyms:
   chimerical, contingent, doubtful, improbable, problematical, unexpected, unlikely

   Synonyms:
   imminent, impending

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1. threatening

   Antonyms:
   encouraging, promising, reassuring, enticing, passed, overpast, withdrawn

   Synonyms:
   menacing, intimidating, minatory, comminatory, minacious, foreboding, unpromising, imminent, impending

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1. baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threateningadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   unalarming, clear

   Synonyms:
   grim, inauspicious, sullen, minacious, baneful, lowering, black, baleful, dark, sinister, heavy, minatory, dour, ominous, menacing, ill, forbidding

2. heavy, lowering, sullen, threateningadjective

   darkened by clouds

   "a heavy sky"

   Antonyms:
   unalarming, clear

   Synonyms:
   ominous, laboured, sullen, laborious, overweight, toilsome, intemperate, forbidding, with child(p), sound, dark, wakeless, dense, grueling, dour, heavy(p), grave, cloggy, heavy(a), large(p), baleful, clayey, enceinte, minatory, menacing, grievous, glowering, fleshy, sour, weighed down, hard, weighty, impenetrable, gruelling, expectant, lumbering, ponderous, backbreaking, sonorous, great(p), profound, operose, saturnine, heavy, arduous, big(a), labored, moody, morose, punishing, glum, gravid, big(p), minacious, lowering, leaden, sinister

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1. threateningadjective

   Synonyms:
   imminent, ominous, impending, minatory, fulminating

How to use threatening in a sentence?

1. State Departments:

   In addition to threatening the U.S. with a possible attack, Abuhamzehs remarksthat the targets had been previously identified by Iran seemed to confirm the State Departments statement regarding the motivation behind the airstrike. Qassem Soleimani FUNERAL PROCESSION IN BAGHDAD DRAWS THOUSANDS OF MOURNERS CHANTING AMERICA IS THE GREAT SATAN Qassem Soleimani comments come after it U.S. defense officials told Fox News that more than 3,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne Divisions 1st Brigade Combat Team would be deployed to Kuwait. Irans top shadow commander, as Qassem Soleimani was known, was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more. According to the State Departments, the airstrike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans. Qassem Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region, the United States will continue to take all necessary action to protect our people and our interests wherever they are around the world. Mourners gathering in the streets of Baghdad Saturday for Soleimanis funeral procession. Dressed in black military fatigues, the mostly male-dominated group carried Iraqi flags and the flags of Iran-backed militias that are fiercely loyal to Qassem Soleimani. In this image made from a video, mourners gather for a funeral procession for Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in Baghdad Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020. ( PMF Media Office via AP) They were heard chanting.

2. Laurence Klotz:

   A 3 has zero ability to metastasize and is not life-threatening, ever, but a 4 is aggressive.

3. Michelle Rinker:

   Some residents took offense to the sign, while others felt it was a great message. I love the billboard, we're conservative and there’s a lot of corruption that's happened in this country and I don't think it’s threatening.

4. Police Chief Heath Landry:

   Zak Evans ' said Creola Police said the high rate of speed, and the fact that the car did not immediately pull over, led to Zak Evans' arrest. BABY ON BOARD : AIRLINE CREW DELIVERS BABY GIRL MID-FLIGHT Zak Evans ' was taken to jail while Zak Evans ' wife was taken by ambulance to Cabrini Hospital. From my understanding, Zak Evans ' was very irate, threatening to get everyone if Zak Evans ' missed Zak Evans ' wife's pregnancy.

5. President Biden:

   Republicans have made it clear that if they win control of the Congress, they will shut down the government, refuse to pay our bills, and it will be the first time in the history of America that we will default--unless I yield and cut social security and Medicare … They're threatening to default on the federal debt. There's nothing that would create more chaos, more inflation, more damage to the American economy than this, let me be clear: I will not cut social security. I will not cut Medicare.

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