MENACING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does menacing mean? 

• MENACING (adjective)
  The adjective MENACING has 1 sense:

1. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

  Familiarity information: MENACING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MENACING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

Synonyms:

baleful; forbidding; menacing; minacious; minatory; ominous; sinister; threatening

Context example:

the situation became ugly

Similar:

alarming (frightening because of an awareness of danger)

 Context examples 

"What evidence?" He spoke with a menacing calm.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His words were quiet, but he had a rasping way of saying them which was very menacing.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In spite of the menacing hand, the voice inspired confidence.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

His dark eyes glanced rapidly over the assembly, and finally settled with a grim and menacing twinkle upon the face of his accuser.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was the menacing truce that marks the meeting of wild beasts that prey.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

His lips had become distorted into a permanent snarl, which at mere sight of Wolf Larsen broke out in sound, horrible and menacing and, I do believe, unconsciously.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He held a short, metal-headed stick in his hand, and he advanced in so menacing a fashion that I was right glad to feel the revolver in my pocket.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He paced swiftly round several times, with little, elastic, menacing steps, whilst the smith pivoted slowly to correspond.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I saw a great yellow face, coarse-grained and greasy, with heavy, double-chin, and two sullen, menacing grey eyes which glared at me from under tufted and sandy brows.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A most unsociable dog he proved to be, resenting all their advances, refusing to let them lay hands on him, menacing them with bared fangs and bristling hair.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)