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Frowning vs Threatening - What's the difference?

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Frowning is a related term of threatening.


As verbs the difference between frowning and threatening

is that frowning is while threatening is .

As nouns the difference between frowning and threatening

is that frowning is the act of giving a frown while threatening is an act of threatening; a threat.

As an adjective threatening is

presenting a threat; menacing; frightening.

frowning

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of giving a frown.
  • * Isaac Watts
    • Let all the creatures above and below frown and scowl upon me; if my Creator smile, I am happy; nor can all their frownings diminish my complete joy.

    threatening

    English

    Alternative forms

    * threatning (obsolete)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Presenting a threat; menacing; frightening.

    • Derived terms

    * life-threatening * nonthreatening, non-threatening * threateningly * threateningness * unthreatening

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of threatening; a threat.
  • * 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts IV:
    • And nowe lorde beholde their threatenynges , and graunte unto thy servauntes wyth all confydence to speake thy worde.
  • * Charles Dickens, Pincher Astray
    • The butcher's boy — a fierce and beefy youth, who openly defied the dog, and waved him off with hurlings of his basket and threatenings of his feet, accompanied by growls of "Git out, yer beast!" — now entered silently