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minacious
[mi-ney-shuhs]
adjective
menacing; threatening.
minacious
/ mɪˈneɪʃəs, mɪˈnæsɪtɪ /
adjective
threatening
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Other Word Forms
- minaciously adverb
- minaciousness noun
- minacity noun
- ˈԲdzܲ adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of minacious1
1650–60; < Latin 峦- (stem of ) overhanging, threatening + -ous
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Word History and Origins
Origin of minacious1
C17: from Latin minax, from ī to threaten
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In sound and subject, “Neither” is a spectacularly dense, mysterious and minacious work.
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We read about “kairotic shifts” and “swanky solanums”; there is a “minacious theme” and “unfeasible grass.”
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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.
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She had not heard a word of Colonel Grand's minacious overture.
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This was the third such attack since the ship dropped anchor in this minacious port.
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