threatful

English

Etymology

From threat +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

Adjective

threatful (comparative more threatful, superlative most threatful)

  1. Threatening.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      Then he with all his puissance doth striue / To strike his oares, and mightily doth driue / The hollow vessell through the threatfull waue […]
    • 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 59:
      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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