Qualities
Synonyms for threatening
Synonyms for threatening: ominous and heavy. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for threatening
Interchangeable with threatening in this sense
Audited under threatening's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one threatening carries in that sense.
- ominousadjective, in the sense "threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name threatening as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- heavyheavy is an adjective in the sense "darkened by clouds"
The first group is filed under threatening's own sense. The second reaches threatening from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
His threatening behavior.
The true synonym
ominous
Same sentence, swapped: His ominous behavior.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot threatening is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- heavy
- critical
- immediate
Where threatening turns up in the game
threatening is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where threatening is the trap
- criticaladjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is decisive, in the sense "forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis", and threatening is on the board beside it.
Play threatening
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so threatening reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other qualities words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. threatening carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.