Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of a menacing or threatening nature; minatory.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Threatening; menacing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Threatening; menacing.
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- adjective
Threatening ,menacing .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Bela Lugosi was born Bela Blasko in 1882, but changed his name in 1903 in honor of his hometown of Lugos,Hungary, while Boris Karloff was born William Henry Pratt in 1887, but assumed his new minacious moniker in 1909 while riding through Canada on a train!
Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: 15 Intriguing Halloween-Related Factoids! Ph.D. Dr. Franklin Ruehl 2011
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Bela Lugosi was born Bela Blasko in 1882, but changed his name in 1903 in honor of his hometown of Lugos,Hungary, while Boris Karloff was born William Henry Pratt in 1887, but assumed his new minacious moniker in 1909 while riding through Canada on a train!
Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: 15 Intriguing Halloween-Related Factoids! Ph.D. Dr. Franklin Ruehl 2011
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Here, too, he says, veins of iron of considerable thickness were seen to traverse the rock in various directions; and he speaks of the caverns formed in the minacious schistose between the granite and the limestone, as something very extraordinary.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829 Various
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Had it not been for Austria's minacious insistence, Albania would have never been born on Serb occupied territory.
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters Samuel Vaknin
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She had not heard a word of Colonel Grand's minacious overture.
The Rose in the Ring George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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They were all hymns and ballads of a minacious description, now one and now another of which he kept repeating in lugubrious recitative.
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
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Blackjazz is no less ridiculous nor minacious in its approach, splicing disparate influences into a sound that will intrigue fans of artists as diverse as Rammstein, Fantomas,
MetalSucks Gary Suarez 2010
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Foreign minority shareholders still complain of being ripped-off by powerful, well-connected - and minacious - business interests.
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The sort of vitriol AP reports found on white supremacist sites is pretty weak tea compared to comments on Mr. Bush that can be found any day of the week over at dKos or DU where minacious abuse, open threats, and vile wishes pass for free speech.
E-nough! 2008
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a whole whose numberless parts are connected by a lowering, mournful, minacious tone.
knitandpurl commented on the word minacious
"These peering tributaries are in amongst the other stones and stars, but they are not quite of them, I'd continue, warming to my minacious theme."
Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett, p 48
April 19, 2017