"threatening" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈθɹɛt.n̩.ɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-threatening.ogg [US] Forms: more threatening [comparative], most threatening [superlative]
enPR: thrĕt′ənĭŋ Etymology: From threaten + -ing. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|threaten|ing}} threaten + -ing Head templates: {{en-adj}} threatening (comparative more threatening, superlative most threatening)
  1. Presenting a threat, posing a likely risk of harm. Translations (presenting a threat): ἀπειλητικός (apeilētikós) (Ancient Greek), пагража́льны (pahražálʹny) (Belarusian), пагро́злівы (pahrózlivy) (Belarusian), заплашителен (zaplašitelen) (Bulgarian), amenaçador (Catalan), 威脅的 (Chinese Mandarin), 威胁的 (wēixié de) (Chinese Mandarin), uhkaava (Finnish), menaçant (French), drohend (German), απειλητικός (apeilitikós) (Greek), minax (Latin), minitābundus (Latin), закану́вачки (zakanúvački) (Macedonian), hākiwakiwa (note: of clouds) (Maori), pōkerekere (note: of clouds) (Maori), pōrukuruku (note: of clouds) (Maori), whakawetiweti (Maori), whakawehiwehi (Maori), whakahakahaka (Maori), takareko (note: of rain) (Maori), paroro (note: of the weather) (Maori), truende (Norwegian Bokmål), trugande (Norwegian Nynorsk), dreiwent (Plautdietsch), arcygroźny (Polish), ameaçador [masculine] (Portuguese), amenințător (Romanian), угрожа́ющий (ugrožájuščij) (Russian), amenazador (Spanish), hotfull (Swedish), загро́зливий (zahrózlyvyj) (Ukrainian), погро́зливий (pohrózlyvyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-threatening-en-adj-La4v4o9z Disambiguation of 'presenting a threat': 84 16
  2. Making threats, making statements about a willingness to cause harm.
    Sense id: en-threatening-en-adj-eO4~a09h
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: threatning [obsolete], minacious, menacing, threatful [rare] Hypernyms: frightening Derived forms: life-threatening, nonthreatening, non-threatening, threateningly, threateningness, unthreatening

Noun

IPA: /ˈθɹɛt.n̩.ɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-threatening.ogg [US] Forms: threatenings [plural]
enPR: thrĕt′ənĭŋ Etymology: From threaten + -ing. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|threaten|ing}} threaten + -ing Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} threatening (countable and uncountable, plural threatenings)
  1. An act of threatening; a threat. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-threatening-en-noun-Lds726v4 Categories (other): Undetermined quotations with omitted translation
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: threatning [obsolete]

Verb

IPA: /ˈθɹɛt.n̩.ɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-threatening.ogg [US]
enPR: thrĕt′ənĭŋ Etymology: From threaten + -ing. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|threaten|ing}} threaten + -ing Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} threatening
  1. present participle and gerund of threaten Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: threaten
    Sense id: en-threatening-en-verb-uWhSusTh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ing Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 24 9 50 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing: 18 24 8 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: threatning [obsolete]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    "threat‧en‧ing"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Never turn your back to someone who is displaying threatening behavior.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Presenting a threat, posing a likely risk of harm."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Presenting",
          "present"
        ],
        [
          "threat",
          "threat"
        ],
        [
          "posing",
          "posing"
        ],
        [
          "likely",
          "likely"
        ],
        [
          "risk",
          "risk"
        ],
        [
          "harm",
          "harm"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Making threats, making statements about a willingness to cause harm."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Making",
          "making"
        ],
        [
          "threat",
          "threat"
        ],
        [
          "making",
          "making"
        ],
        [
          "statement",
          "statement"
        ],
        [
          "willingness",
          "willingness"
        ],
        [
          "cause",
          "cause"
        ],
        [
          "harm",
          "harm"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈθɹɛt.n̩.ɪŋ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-threatening.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/66/En-us-threatening.ogg/En-us-threatening.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/En-us-threatening.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "thrĕt′ənĭŋ"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "minacious"
    },
    {
      "word": "menacing"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "threatful"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "threatning"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "pahražálʹny",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "пагража́льны"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "pahrózlivy",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "пагро́злівы"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zaplašitelen",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "заплашителен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "amenaçador"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "威脅的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "wēixié de",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "威胁的"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "uhkaava"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "menaçant"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "drohend"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "apeilitikós",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "απειλητικός"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "apeilētikós",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "ἀπειλητικός"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "minax"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "minitābundus"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "zakanúvački",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "закану́вачки"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "note": "of clouds",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "hākiwakiwa"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "note": "of clouds",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "pōkerekere"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "note": "of clouds",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "pōrukuruku"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "whakawetiweti"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "whakawehiwehi"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "whakahakahaka"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "note": "of rain",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "takareko"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "note": "of the weather",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "paroro"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "truende"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "trugande"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "dreiwent"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "arcygroźny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ameaçador"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "amenințător"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ugrožájuščij",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "угрожа́ющий"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "amenazador"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "hotfull"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zahrózlyvyj",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "загро́зливий"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "pohrózlyvyj",
      "sense": "presenting a threat",
      "word": "погро́зливий"
    }
  ],
  "word": "threatening"
}

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    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *trewd-",
    "English terms suffixed with -ing",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verb forms"
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "threaten",
        "3": "ing"
      },
      "expansion": "threaten + -ing",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From threaten + -ing.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "threatenings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "threatening (countable and uncountable, plural threatenings)",
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    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "threat‧en‧ing"
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Undetermined quotations with omitted translation",
        "Undetermined terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1864 January 30, [authorship claimed by Edmund Yates], “Pincher Astray”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All The Year Round. A Weekly Journal., volume X, number 249, London: Chapman and Hall, page 539, column 2",
          "text": "The butcher’s boy—a fierce and beefy youth, who openly defied the dog, and waved him off with hurlings of his basket and threatenings of his feet, accompanied by growls of “Git out, yer beast!”—now entered silently;\nEdmund Yates (1884) “A Dickens Chapter”, in Edmund Yates: His Recollections and Experiences, volume II, London: Richard Bentley and Son, page 111: “In Mr. J. C. Hotten’s Life, and in Mr. A. W. Ward’s admirable monograph in the “English Men of Letters” Series, a paper of mine called “Pincher Astray” is attributed to Dickens.”",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An act of threatening; a threat."
      ],
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        [
          "threat",
          "threat"
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈθɹɛt.n̩.ɪŋ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-threatening.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/66/En-us-threatening.ogg/En-us-threatening.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/En-us-threatening.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "thrĕt′ənĭŋ"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "threatning"
    }
  ],
  "word": "threatening"
}

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