Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Threat

Nouns
  • threat, menace
  • defiance etc. Defiance
  • abuse, minacity, intimidation
  • denunciation
  • fulmination
  • commination etc. (curse) Malediction
  • gathering clouds etc. (warning) Warning.
Verbs
  • threat, threaten
  • menace
  • snarl, growl, gnarl, mutter, bark, bully. defy etc. Defiance
  • intimidate etc. Fear
  • shake the fist at, double the fist at, clinch the fist at
  • thunder, talk big, fulminate, use big words, bluster, look daggers, stare daggers.
Adjectives
  • threatening, menacing
  • minatory, minacious
  • comminatory, abusive
  • ominous etc. (predicting) Prediction
  • defiant etc. Defiance
  • under the ban.
Int
  • at your peril!, do your worst!