Qualities
Synonyms for threatening
One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
His threatening behavior.
The true synonym
ominous
Same sentence, swapped: His ominous behavior.
Close but different
These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for threatening as it is used in the sentence above.
- heavy
- critical
- immediate
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