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Menacing vs Inauspicious - What's the difference?

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Menacing is a related term of inauspicious.


As adjectives the difference between menacing and inauspicious

is that menacing is suggesting imminent harm while inauspicious is not auspicious; ill-omened; unfortunate; unlucky; unfavorable.

As a verb menacing

is .

As a noun menacing

is the act of making menaces or threats.

menacing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Suggesting imminent harm.
  • Threatening.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making menaces or threats.
  • * (William Cobbett)
    • They remember his subornings, menacings , bribings, cuttings, maimings, hangings, and burnings.

    inauspicious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not auspicious; ill-omened; unfortunate; unlucky; unfavorable.
  • * 1595 : And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars. — .
  • * Inauspicious love. — .
  • * 1788 : It is not to be wondered at that a government instituted in times so inauspicious, should on experiment be found greatly deficient and inadequate to the purpose it was intended to answer. — .

    • Antonyms

    * auspicious

    Derived terms

    * inauspiciously * inauspiciousness