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Definitions for Menacing
[1] something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
[2] a person whose actions, attitudes, or ideas are considered dangerous or harmful: When he gets behind the wheel of a car, he's a real menace.
[3] an extremely annoying person.
[4] to utter or direct a threat against; threaten.
[5] to serve as a probable threat to; imperil.
[6] to express or serve as a threat.
[7] to threaten with violence, danger, etc
[8] literary a threat or the act of threatening
[9] something menacing; a source of danger
[10] informal a nuisance
Words related to Menacing
menacefrightening, alarming, threatening, dangerous, lowering, looming, impending, approaching, louring, imminent, minatory, intimidatory, minacious
Words nearby Menacing
menacemen's, men's room, men's wear, men-, men-children, menace, menacme, menad, menadiol diacetate, menadione, menado
Origin of Menacing
e1250–1300; Middle English < Middle French < Latin minācia, equivalent to mināc- (stem of mināx ) jutting out, threatening + -ia -ia
Other words from Menacing
men·ac·er , noun
men·ac·ing·ly , adverb
non·men·ac·ing , adjective
pre·men·ace , noun, verb (used with object), pre·men·aced, pre·men·ac·ing.
un·men·aced , adjective
un·men·ac·ing , adjective
Word origin for Menacing
eC13: ultimately related to Latin minax threatening, from mināri to threaten
Synonyms for Menacing
alarming, dangerous, frightening, threatening, approaching, impending, looming, louring, lowering, overhanging, imminent, intimidatory, minacious, minatory