threatened
Promised harm if
Threatened describes someone or something facing danger or harm.
A person may feel threatened by aggression, competition, or challenge to their status: He felt threatened by her success.
Species are threatened when their populations decline toward extinction—a formal conservation category between vulnerable and endangered.
To be threatened is also to have received a threat: The witness was threatened into silence.
Threatened with harm
- bulliedRepeatedly mistreated by aggressors
- coercedPressured into compliance
- pressuredUrged with insistence
- harassedPersistently tormented
frightened · terrorized · dominated · deterred · scared · daunted · unsettled · stalked
Source of potential harm
- perilSerious threat of harm
- jeopardyRisk of harm
- riskPossibility of harm
- menaceSource of potential harm
crisis · emergency · looming · imminent · impending · ominous · dire · precarious
Finest taxonomic rank
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- habitatOrganism's natural environment
- biodiversityRange of life forms
- poachingUnlawful wildlife capture
wildlife · conservation · ecosystem · fauna · flora · deforestation · overfishing · climate change
Out in open
- defenselessWithout means to resist
- insecureLacking self-assurance
- precariousDangerously insecure
- susceptibleEasily influenced or harmed
unprotected · at risk · imperiled · jeopardized · compromised · in danger · unsafe · helpless
Troubled by uncertainty
- fearfulFull of fright
- worriedTroubled by uncertainty
- uneasyTroubled, not calm
- alarmedFeeling sudden fear
distressed · panicked · apprehensive · nervous · on edge · agitated · tense · stressed
Gave advance notice
- cautionedGave a warning
- toldCommunicated verbally
- urgedStrongly encouraged action
- demandedRequired with force
ordered · advised · reminded · informed · notified · confronted · admonished · put on notice
menaced
Threatened with harm
- bulliedRepeatedly mistreated by aggressors
- coercedPressured into compliance
- pressuredUrged with insistence
harassed · frightened · terrorized · dominated · deterred · scared · daunted · unsettled · stalked · cornered
hazard
Source of potential harm
menace · crisis · emergency · looming · imminent · impending · ominous · dire · precarious · instability
species
Finest taxonomic rank
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- habitatOrganism's natural environment
- biodiversityRange of life forms
poaching · wildlife · conservation · ecosystem · fauna · flora · deforestation · overfishing · climate change · invasive species
exposed
Out in open
- defenselessWithout means to resist
- insecureLacking self-assurance
- precariousDangerously insecure
susceptible · unprotected · at risk · imperiled · jeopardized · compromised · in danger · unsafe · helpless · fragile
anxious
Troubled by uncertainty
alarmed · distressed · panicked · apprehensive · nervous · on edge · agitated · tense · stressed · unsettled
warned
Gave advance notice
demanded · ordered · advised · reminded · informed · notified · confronted · admonished · put on notice
- ecologyhabitat, ecosystem, balance, niche, food webs
- speech verbssaid, says, asked, answered, replied
- wrongedabused, mistreated, victimized, exploited, oppressed
- survival statesalive, dead, dying, injured, safe
- wildlife statusendangered, extinct, vulnerable, rare species, critically endangered
- conservationconservation, wildlife, endangered, habitat, sanctuary
threatenedthriving
Succeeding vigorously
flourishing · secure · stable · nonthreatened · abundant
threatenedreassured
Had confidence restored
secure · confident · safe · comfortable · unthreatened
- threatening behaviorActions conveying potential harm
- life-threatening diseaseCondition endangering survival
- threatened speciesWildlife at extinction risk
- threatening witnessesCoercing those who observed
- threatened habitatsEcosystems at risk of destruction
threatening, threaten, threatens, threateningly, unthreatening, non-threatening, unthreatened, threatened species