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What is the adjective for threaten?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb threat which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

threatened
  1. (ecology) At risk of becoming endangered in the near future.
  2. Feeling insecure or vulnerable.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. endangered, disappearing, dying out, vulnerable, vanishing, nearing extinction, facing extinction, imperiled, in danger of extinction, imperilled, dying, at risk of extinction, dwindling, scarce, at risk, rare, doomed, in decline, becoming extinct, on the way out, in danger, on its last legs, waning, fading, on the decline, exposed, susceptible, liable, sensitive, open, in jeopardy, in deep water, subject to, protected, declining, failing, decaying, atrophying, crumbling, sinking, moribund, diminishing, ebbing, withering, disintegrating, collapsing, weakening, deteriorating, regressing, past its prime … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The key habitats hosting threatened species are wetlands, followed by forests, grassland, and scrubland.”
      “But even his position is now threatened and he can no longer protect himself.”
threatening
  1. Presenting a threat; menacing; frightening.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. intimidating, hostile, menacing, forbidding, frightening, fearsome, admonitory, bullying, cautionary, comminatory, minacious, minatorial, minatory, scary, terrifying, terrorising, terrorizing, aggressive, alarming, baleful, forceful, forcible, intimidatory, oppressive, scowling, warning, mean-looking, strong-arm, coercive, thuggish, bully-boy, violent, forced, nonconsensual, without permission, without consent, physical, rough, bullyboy, dangerous, perilous, serious, hazardous, risky, grave, unsafe, parlous, grievous, jeopardising … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Eladio, with a threatening voice, was warning Yvette to stay away from Adrianne's life.”
      “The body doesn't know the difference between a really threatening situation and an imagined one, and so any surge of fear readies it to fight or run.”
      “Marco's mind was troubled by the threatening news of these warlike preparations.”
threatsome
  1. Characterised or marked by threat; threatening
threatless
  1. Devoid of threats; unthreatening.
threatning
  1. Obsolete form of threatening.
threatenable
  1. Capable of being threatened.
threatful
  1. Threatening.
  2. Examples:
      3. “The sky was a threatful gray, yet the willows blazed in tender bud, and drifts of wild-apple blossoms floated in the cavern pines.”
      “It will he there, musing, quiet, steadfast, not fading and not particularly threatful, but of itself alone serene, of itself alone triumphant.”
      “And as for that we'll see about that, fear no such threatful muttering under the weather, either.”
threated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of threat
threating
  1. present participle of threat
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