threatful
English
Etymology
From threat + -ful.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈθɹɛtfəl/
Adjective
threatful (comparative more threatful, superlative most threatful)
- Threatening.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto XII:
- Then he with all his puissance doth striue / To strike his oares, and mightily doth driue / The hollow vessell through the threatfull waue […]
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Derived terms
- threatfully
- threatfulness