Contextualizebeta

threateningly

adv

Etymology

From threatening + -ly.

  1. inherited from thretenyng
  2. suffixed as threateningly — “threatening + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a threatening manner.

    • He tried to glare threateningly, but how much of a threat can you be when you are naked AND tied to a bed?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for threateningly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA