menacing

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Synonym of threatening in its various senses.

   menacing look

2. 2
   noun

   The act of making menaces or threats.

   1824-1826, William Cobbett, History of the Protestant Reformation They remember his subornings, menacings, bribings, cuttings, maimings, hangings, and burnings.

3. 3
   adj

   threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

4. 4
   verb

   present participle and gerund of menace