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threatensome en · ADJ

Etymology

From threaten + -some.

Meanings

1. (dialectal) Characterised by threat or threatening.
   • To be sure, the weather had looked "a bit threatensome," but every self-respecting woman had defied the elements in a much beribboned and befeathered head-gear. 1902, Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 105, page 471:
   • The lightning-god was a suitable adornment of the light-giving lamp, and his threatensome attitude an excellent apotrópaion. 1925, Arthur Bernard Cook, Zeus, page 712:

Forms

Translations (1)

es amenazante (characterised by threat — see also threatening)