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The Clue

Threatening (10 letter answer)

The Answer

PORTENTOUS

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Notes

The answer PORTENTOUS is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.

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Arousing amazement

Definition

PORTENTOUS as an adjective:

1. (portentous, prodigious) = of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"
2. (fateful, foreboding, portentous) = ominously prophetic
3. (grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous) = puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek