All threat synonyms

noun threat

• mayday — the international radiotelephone distress signal, used by ships and aircraft.
• in-junction — Law. a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act.
• fearfulness — causing or apt to cause fear; frightening: a fearful apparition.
• fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
• hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
• endangerment — The act of putting someone into danger, or the condition of being in danger.
• duress — compulsion by threat or force; coercion; constraint.
• coercion — Coercion is the act or process of persuading someone forcefully to do something that they do not want to do.
• imperilment — to put in peril or danger; endanger.
• bogy — an imaginary evil being or spirit; goblin
• forewarning — to warn in advance.
• hot potato — Informal. a situation or issue that is difficult, unpleasant, or risky to deal with.
• foretoken — a sign of a future event; omen; forewarning.
• arm-twisting — persuasion
• menace — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
• jeopardy — hazard or risk of or exposure to loss, harm, death, or injury: For a moment his life was in jeopardy.
• boogeyman — a frightening imaginary being, often one used as a threat in disciplining children
• bodement — a foreboding or omen; presentiment.
• foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
• danger — Danger is the possibility that someone may be harmed or killed.
• bugbear — Something or someone that is your bugbear worries or upsets you.
• challenge — A challenge is something new and difficult which requires great effort and determination.
• bodements — a foreboding or omen; presentiment.
• warning — the act or utterance of one who warns or the existence, appearance, sound, etc., of a thing that warns.
• loup-garou — a werewolf; lycanthrope.