minatory

pronunciation

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  • Adjective:
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

Word Origin

minatory (adj.)
"expressing a threat, 1530s, from Middle French minatoire, from Late Latin minatorius, from minat-, stem of minari "to threaten" (see menace (n.)).