| sinister | | |
| adj. | 1. baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening | threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments.; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly" |
| ~ alarming | frightening because of an awareness of danger. |
| adj. | 2. black, dark, sinister | stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable.; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him" |
| ~ evil | morally bad or wrong.; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds" |
| adj. | 3. sinister | on or starting from the wearer's left.; "bar sinister" |
| ~ heraldry | the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies. |
| ~ sinistral | of or on the left.; "a sinistral gastropod shell with the apex upward has its opening on the left when facing the observer"; "a sinistral flatfish lies with the left eye uppermost" |
| threatening | | |
| adj. | 1. heavy, lowering, sullen, threatening | darkened by clouds.; "a heavy sky" |
| ~ cloudy | full of or covered with clouds.; "cloudy skies" |
| menace | | |
| n. (state) | 1. menace, threat | something that is a source of danger.; "earthquakes are a constant threat in Japan" |
| ~ danger | a cause of pain or injury or loss.; "he feared the dangers of traveling by air" |
| ~ yellow peril | the threat to Western civilization said to arise from the power of Asiatic peoples. |
| n. (communication) | 2. menace | a threat or the act of threatening.; "he spoke with desperate menace" |
| ~ threat | declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on another.; "his threat to kill me was quite explicit" |
| v. (stative) | 3. endanger, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, peril, threaten | pose a threat to; present a danger to.; "The pollution is endangering the crops" |
| ~ exist, be | have an existence, be extant.; "Is there a God?" |
| v. (communication) | 4. menace | express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture.; "he menaced the bank manager with a stick" |
| ~ evince, express, show | give expression to.; "She showed her disappointment" |
| v. (body) | 5. menace | act in a threatening manner.; "A menacing person" |
| ~ behave, act, do | behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself.; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way?"; "The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people" |
| threaten | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. threaten | to utter intentions of injury or punishment against:.; "He threatened me when I tried to call the police" |
| ~ warn | notify of danger, potential harm, or risk.; "The director warned him that he might be fired"; "The doctor warned me about the dangers of smoking" |
| ~ offer | threaten to do something.; "I offered to leave the committee if they did not accept my proposal" |
| v. (communication) | 2. threaten | to be a menacing indication of something:.; "The clouds threaten rain"; "Danger threatens" |
| ~ augur, auspicate, bode, foreshadow, omen, portend, presage, betoken, predict, prefigure, prognosticate, forecast, foretell | indicate by signs.; "These signs bode bad news" |
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