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MINATORY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does minatory mean?
• MINATORY (adjective)
The adjective MINATORY has 1 sense:
1. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
Familiarity information: MINATORY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Comparative: minatorier
Superlative: minatoriest
Superlative: minatoriest
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)
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