How do you pronounce threatful?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈθɹɛtfəl/.

threatful

/ˈθɹɛtfəl/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Then he with all his puissance doth striue / To strike his oares, and mightily doth driue / The hollow vessell through the threatfull waue […]"
"The sound of the gang was diminishing into the distance, and the prophet of doom, restored to eloquence, was sending threatful bolts of damnation, hell-fire, and a brimstone gehenna hurtling after them."

From threat + -ful.

more threatful (comparative) most threatful (superlative)

threatfully threatfulness

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