Comminatory [adjective]
Definition of Comminatory:
menacing, ominous
Synonyms of Comminatory:
● Sinister
● Ugly
● Dire
● Alarming
● Lowering
● Looming
● Bullying
● Near
● Warning
● Black
● Close
● At hand
● Baleful
● Baneful
● Fateful
● Grim
● Imminent
● Unlucky
● Unsafe
● Upcoming
● Minatory
● Scowling
● Loury
● Lowery
Opposite/Antonyms of Comminatory:
Sentence/Example of Comminatory:
It suggests also that Wellington, like my young aviator, was unconscious of his own comminatory speech.
The willing listeners never seem to have expressed disgust at the comminatory performance.
Comminatory and exhortatory cautions not to soil, spoil, or tear books and MSS.
I detected something comminatory in his yellow, emaciated countenance, but I believe now he was simply startled by my youth.
This order not being obeyed, on the 15th of December he expedited a second brief, which was comminatory.
Its tone is comminatory throughout; nowhere do we hear, as in other prophecies, the promise of pardon in return for penitence.
So the instruments were tuned and the comminatory verses sung.
Wherever they meet with opposition they at once resort to comminatory messages.