Black
Black adjective - Causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer.
Usage example: the Friday of the stock market crash was indeed a black day for the country
Threatening is a synonym for black in hopeless topic. In some cases you can use "Threatening" instead an adjective "Black", when it comes to topics like angry.
Threatening
Threatening adjective - Being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come.
Usage example: a threatening silence followed the loud thump in the adjoining motel room
Black is a synonym for threatening in property topic. You can use "Black" instead an adjective "Threatening", if it concerns topics such as ominous, menacing.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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After Ruby reveals herself to have been Evil All Along, her eyes turn black while threatening or fighting Ash.
Source: Black Eyes of Evil -
Amanda Waller: (While threatening murderous convicts to back down) I am fat, black, and menopausal.
Source: Sassy Black Woman -
He's an extremely large, extremely strong black man (the chief henchman of the main villain), he speaks in a gravelly, threatening voice, and he likes to stab people with his extremely large knife.
Source: Scary Black Man
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