Threatening vs Fateful - What's the difference?
threatening | fateful | Related terms |
An act of threatening; a threat.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts IV:
* Charles Dickens, Pincher Astray
Momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate.
Determined in advance by fate, fated.
Threatening is a related term of fateful.
As adjectives the difference between threatening and fateful
is that threatening is presenting a threat; menacing; frightening while fateful is momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate.As a verb threatening
is .As a noun threatening
is an act of threatening; a threat.threatening
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Alternative forms
* threatning (obsolete)Verb
(head)Derived terms
* life-threatening * nonthreatening, non-threatening * threateningly * threateningness * unthreateningNoun
(en noun)- And nowe lorde beholde their threatenynges , and graunte unto thy servauntes wyth all confydence to speake thy worde.
- 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
fateful
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Adjective
(en adjective)- It started with that fateful trip, history was never the same afterwards.