Brucker Bears 4-5: menacing

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

menacing

(adj.) - Something menacing is unpleasant, threatening, and scary. If the sky is menacing, you can see there is going to be a storm. If someone's look is menacing, you know they are about to do something horrible.

Synonyms: threatening, intimidating, frightening, looming
Antonyms: unthreatening, pleasant
Etymology: 1300 Latin, from minæ meaning "threats, projecting points"
Morphology: noun = menace
Example: Rescue Josh McGuire, pg 79 - "He had to crawl into the menacing black space."

And now presenting...

Menacing Molly!

2 comments:

MMorganOctober 7, 2012 at 7:15 PM
Greta says,
I was watching Halloween Wars and a guy said this is going to look menacing. Because he was making a pumpkin scary
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MMorganOctober 7, 2012 at 7:18 PM
Greta says,
I was watching Disney channel and it was on commercial and it said it is going to be a menacing night.
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