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minacious
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective minacious has 1 sense
- minacious(s = adj.all) baleful, forbidding, menacing, 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"
CIDE DICTIONARY
minacious, a. [L. minax, -acis. See Menace.].
Threatening; menacing. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
minacious
Threat
N threat, menace, defiance, abuse, minacity, intimidation, denunciation, fulmination, commination, gathering clouds, threatening, menacing, minatory, minacious, comminatory, abusive, in terrorem, ominous, defiant, under the ban, Int, vae victis!, at your peril!, do your worst!.
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