amenazador

adj.

threatening, menacing, ominous.

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amenazador

► adjetivo

1 threatening, menacing

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(f. - amenazadora)

adj.

menacing, threatening

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-dora adjetivo, amenazante adjetivo threatening, menacing

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= ominous, threatening, frowning, forbidding, looming, scary [scarier -comp., scariest -sup.], menacing, nasty looking, portentous.

Ex. At first blush, nothing seemed particularly ominous about the formation of the ad hoc committee.

Ex. It is easy to become carried away by the sheer size of the so-called 'information explosion' and to regard the growth of literature as a phenomenon as threatening to civilization as a virulent epidemic or the 'population explosion' in the third world.

Ex. The impulse to learn is a ruling passion in very few people; in most of us it is so weak that a frowning aspect can discourage it.

Ex. All those shelves full of books are forbidding, daunting.

Ex. The automated catalogue became a spectre of looming change because the same electronic advances that made the online catalogue a reality promised even greater transformations = El catálogo automatizado se convirtió en un espectro del inminente cambio ya que los mismos avances electrónicos que hicieron realidad el catálogo en línea prometían transformaciones aún mayores.

Ex. The very term 'outsourcing' is seen by many cataloguing departments as a scary word.

Ex. This is a collection of articles on the theme: Books for children with murderous, shocking, menacing endings.

Ex. The large and nasty-looking African Buffalo is highly dangerous to humans due to its unpredictable nature.

Ex. Before me stretched the portentous menacing road of a new decade.

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* avecinarse de un modo amenazador = loom + large on the horizon.

* conducta amenazadora = threatening behaviour.

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-dora adjetivo, amenazante adjetivo threatening, menacing

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= ominous, threatening, frowning, forbidding, looming, scary [scarier -comp., scariest -sup.], menacing, nasty looking, portentous.

Ex: At first blush, nothing seemed particularly ominous about the formation of the ad hoc committee.

Ex: It is easy to become carried away by the sheer size of the so-called 'information explosion' and to regard the growth of literature as a phenomenon as threatening to civilization as a virulent epidemic or the 'population explosion' in the third world.

Ex: The impulse to learn is a ruling passion in very few people; in most of us it is so weak that a frowning aspect can discourage it.

Ex: All those shelves full of books are forbidding, daunting.

Ex: The automated catalogue became a spectre of looming change because the same electronic advances that made the online catalogue a reality promised even greater transformations = El catálogo automatizado se convirtió en un espectro del inminente cambio ya que los mismos avances electrónicos que hicieron realidad el catálogo en línea prometían transformaciones aún mayores.

Ex: The very term 'outsourcing' is seen by many cataloguing departments as a scary word.

Ex: This is a collection of articles on the theme: Books for children with murderous, shocking, menacing endings.

Ex: The large and nasty-looking African Buffalo is highly dangerous to humans due to its unpredictable nature.

Ex: Before me stretched the portentous menacing road of a new decade.

* avecinarse de un modo amenazador = loom + large on the horizon.

* conducta amenazadora = threatening behaviour.

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amenazador -dora

adj,

amenazante adjective threatening, menacing

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amenazador

◊ -dora , amenazante adjetivo

threatening, menacing
amenazador,-ora, amenazante adjetivo threatening, menacing

'amenazador' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
amenazadora
- amenazante
English:
forbidding
- menace
- menacing
- threatening
- threateningly

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amenazador, -ora adj

threatening, menacing

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amenazador

adj threatening

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amenazador, -dora adj

: threatening, menacing