Haunting
Haunting adjective - Fearfully and mysteriously strange or fantastic.
Threatening and haunting are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Threatening" instead an adjective "Haunting".
Threatening
Threatening adjective - Giving signs of immediate occurrence.
Haunting and threatening are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Haunting" instead an adjective "Threatening".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- disturbing and haunting
- disturbing and threatening
- dismal and haunting
- dismal and threatening
- forbidding and haunting
- forbidding and threatening
- baleful and haunting
- baleful and threatening
- baneful and haunting
- baneful and threatening
- sinister and haunting
- sinister and threatening
- dark and haunting
- dark and threatening
Both words in one sentence
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Saving the... Film Production: Skeleton Island, where the haunting is threatening Pete's dad's film shoot.
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The visuals aren't too bad, but the music sounds like it's from a horror-thriller movie, with very threatening synth music that ends on a downright haunting note.
Source: Nightmare Fuel / Vanity Plate -
Jim Moriarty from BBC's Sherlock has large brown eyes that can be haunting, (the flashback scenes of him being tortured by Mycroft Holmes's men in Reichenbach Fall are a good indicator of this), threatening, really, really cute◊, and even dead-looking◊.
Source: Brown Eyes
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