threatensome

comparative more threatensome · superlative most threatensome

1. dialectalCharacterised by threat or threatening.

   The lightning-god was a suitable adornment of the light-giving lamp, and his threatensome attitude an excellent apotrópaion.

   1925, Arthur Bernard Cook, Zeus, page 712

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   To be sure, the weather had looked "a bit threatensome," but every self-respecting woman had defied the elements in a much beribboned and befeathered head-gear.

   1902, Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 105, page 471