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