Definition of Minacious

1. Adjective. Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments. "The situation became ugly"

Exact synonyms: Baleful, Forbidding, Menacing, Minatory, Ominous, Sinister, Threatening
Similar to: Alarming
Derivative terms: Balefulness, Omen

Definition of Minacious

1. a. Threatening; menacing.

Definition of Minacious

1. Adjective. (rare) Threatening, menacing. ¹

2. Noun. Something which has a threatening or menacing character. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Minacious

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Minacious

mimotannic acid
mimsey
mimsier
mimsies
mimsiest
mimulus
mimuluses
min
min.
min recombinase
mina
minability
minable
minaceous
minacious (current term)
minacities
minacity
minae
minah
minahs
minamiite
minaprine
minar
minarchism
minarchisms
minarchist
minarchists
minaret
minareted

Literary usage of Minacious

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Recensio synoptica annotationis sacrae, being a critical digest and by Samuel Thomas Bloomfield (1828)
"... for (in which Grot, here understands the expression), as being merely minacious and damnatory, threatening death and leaving to it those who disobeyed; ..."

2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Whether the face of heaven smile upon us with a cheerful bright azure, or look upon us with a more sad and minacious countenance. ..."

3. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Threatening, menacing, minacious. Minaret, «. Turret (of a Mahometan mosque]. Mince, v, a, I. Hash, cut into small pieces, ..."

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