Threatening vs Raging - What's the difference?

Threatening is a related term of raging.

As verbs the difference between threatening and raging

is that threatening is while raging is .

As adjectives the difference between threatening and raging

is that threatening is presenting a threat; menacing; frightening while raging is volatile, very active or unpredictable.

As nouns the difference between threatening and raging

is that threatening is an act of threatening; a threat while raging is a display of rage.

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

raging

English

Verb

(head)

*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging . No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Volatile, very active or unpredictable.

Noun

(en noun)

A display of rage.

To quell the ragings of his Father's ire, / And save a guilty world from quenchless fire!