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Minatory means threatening: it hangs the idea of hurt in the air, even if nobody has struck yet. A minatory letter, look, or tone warns that harm may follow. This is a , rather stiff word. Lawyers, journalists, and novelists use it; friends almost never do. In real talk people say threatening, , or warning. Use minatory when you want that formal flavour, not when you are chatting. Though actually, even in writing it can sound a little old-fashioned — which is sometimes the point.
帶威脅意味的、威嚇的（書面語；口語會說「在威脅」）
組成Borrowed from Middle French minatoire, from Late Latin minātōrius. It belongs with the old “threaten” line of words; compare menace.
同家族的字
- menacesame Latin line of threat-words; menace is the cousin people actually say
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
minatoryadj/ˈmɪn.ə.tɔːɹ.iː/
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Threatening, menacing.
- […]the Place de Grève, with its thirty thousand Regulars, its whole irregular Saint-Antoine and Saint-Marceau, is one minatory mass of clear or rusty steel;[…]
- Number 3, Lauriston Gardens wore an ill-omened and minatory look.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。