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Imposing vs Threatening - What's the difference?

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Imposing is a related term of threatening.


As verbs the difference between imposing and threatening

is that imposing is while threatening is .

As adjectives the difference between imposing and threatening

is that imposing is magnificent and impressive because of appearance, size, stateliness or dignity while threatening is presenting a threat; menacing; frightening.

As a noun threatening is

an act of threatening; a threat.

imposing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Magnificent and impressive because of appearance, size, stateliness or dignity.

    • 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