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[ adjective ] threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

Examples

"a baleful look" "forbidding thunderclouds" "his tone became menacing" "ominous rumblings of discontent" "sinister storm clouds" "a sinister smile" "his threatening behavior"

Used in print

(John F. Hayward, "Mimesis and Symbol in the Arts"...)

We feel the quality of these powers initially as in some degree wholesome or threatening .

(Joseph Chadwick, No Land Is Free....)

They crowded him in that threatening way once_more , forced him to give_in .

Related terms

alarming

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[ adjective ] darkened by clouds

Synonyms

lowering sullen heavy

Examples

"a heavy sky"

Related terms

cloudy

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