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threatful

adj
/ˈθɹɛtfəl/UK

Etymology

From threat + -ful.

  1. derived from *trewd-✻
  2. inherited from *þrautaz✻
  3. inherited from þrēat
  4. inherited from threte
  5. suffixed as threatful — “threat + ful”

Definitions

  1. Threatening.

    • Then he with all his puissance doth striue / To strike his oares, and mightily doth driue / The hollow vessell through the threatfull waue […]
    • The sound of the gang was diminishing into the distance, and the prophet of doom, restored to eloquence, was sending threatful bolts of damnation, hell-fire, and a brimstone gehenna hurtling after them.

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