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Threatening vs Tretable - What's the difference?

threatening | tretable |

As adjectives the difference between threatening and tretable

is that threatening is presenting a threat; menacing; frightening while tretable is (obsolete) tractable; moderate.

As a verb threatening

is .

As a noun threatening

is an act of threatening; a threat.

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

    tretable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) tractable; moderate
    • By nature debonaire and tretable . — Chaucer.
    (Webster 1913)