Minatory
Minatory adjective - Being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come.
Usage example: the novel's protagonist is haunted by a minatory black specter
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
Minatory is a synonym for threatening in menacing topic. You can use "Minatory" instead an adjective "Threatening", if it concerns topics such as foresight, ominous, minacious. rare substitute
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- foreboding and minatory
- foreboding and threatening
- forbidding and minatory
- forbidding and threatening
- baleful and minatory
- baleful and threatening
- sinister and minatory
- sinister and threatening
- inauspicious and minatory
- inauspicious and threatening
- dangerous and minatory
- dangerous and threatening
- ugly and minatory
- ugly and threatening
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