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  • 1. menacing
  • Rhymes with Menacing
  • Menacing in a sentence
  • Quotes about Menacing
Table of Contents
  • 1. menacing
  • Rhymes with Menacing
  • Menacing in a sentence
  • Quotes about Menacing
Synonyms
Antonyms

1. menacing

adjective. ['ˈmɛnəsɪŋ'] threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments.

Synonyms

  • minacious
  • threatening
  • alarming
  • forbidding
  • ominous
  • sinister
  • baleful

Antonyms

  • clear
  • pleasant
  • propitious
  • good

Rhymes with Menacing

  • accessing
  • acquiescing
  • addressing
  • advancing
  • affixing
  • amassing
  • annexing
  • announcing
  • assessing
  • balancing
  • basing
  • bouncing
  • canvassing
  • caressing
  • casing
  • ceasing
  • chasing
  • classing
  • coalescing
  • coaxing

Sentences with menacing


1. Noun, singular or mass
A furrowed brow might make the eye contact all the more menacing.

2. Verb, gerund or present participle
Ku's statue is the most dominating in appearance, with broad shoulders and a large, menacing head.

Quotes about menacing


1. He had a bleeding cut on his leg and he smelled like shit.Her nose wrinkled. "Step in something?"she asked innocently."That I did not mind."He took a menacing step toward her. "What I did mind was being hit by a cab, then landing on the lap of a naked man. With an erection, Anya. He had an erection.
- Gena Showalter, The Darkest Kiss

2. The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock.
- Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

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