Meaning & use
Minacious
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Having a menacing or threatening quality.
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Dark, minacious clouds gathered over the harbor before the storm broke.
His minacious tone made it clear the warning was not to be taken lightly.
A note on using this word
A rare, literary word derived from the Latin 'minax' (threatening), the same root that gives us 'menace.'
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