threatsome
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]threatsome (comparative more threatsome, superlative most threatsome)
- Characterised or marked by threat; threatening
- 1903, The Vassar Miscellany, volume 33:
- The second act depicts the deadly combat of Be-a-Wolf and Grumble, a loathly, threatsome monster in red burlaps, and ended in the utter overthrow of the power of evil with no perceptible effort on Be-a-Wolf's part.
- 1929, Maristan Chapman, Homeplace:
- The clouds shut in once more, and a threatsome wind stirred the trees, and Fayre gave over his song and raced back to town out of the weather that was beginning to happen.