59 entries under menacing topic. ×

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threatening(adjective, person, mean, bad, wrong)
43
sinister(adjective, person, appearance, mean, bad)
27
inauspicious(adjective, miserable, significant, foreboding, unfortunate)
27
grim(adjective, person, appearance, sad, awful)
21
gloomy(adjective, hard, severe, obscure, dark)
20
portentous(adjective, exciting, foreboding, warn, luck)
19
forbidding(adjective, person, appearance, dark, unpleasant)
19
minatory(adjective, foreboding, threat)
16
fateful(adjective, significant, grave, foreboding, threatening)
15
unpropitious(adjective, mean, bad, wrong, evil)
14
baleful(adjective, warning, foreboding, threatening, doomed)
14
dangerous(adjective, unpleasant, heavy, cruel, horrible)
12
ugly(adjective, person, unpleasant, awful, heavy)
11
unfriendly(adjective, person, dark, negative, hostile)
11
perilous(adjective, heavy, gloomy, acute, major)
10
dark(adjective, upset, obscure, sad, unpleasant)
10
dire(adjective, miserable, wretched, foreboding, warn)
10
unlucky(adjective, negative, wretched, grave, foreboding)
9
unpromising(adjective, negative, foreboding, threatening)
8
lowering(adjective, foreboding)
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