All forbidding synonyms
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F f adj forbidding
- sinister β threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous: a sinister remark.
- threatening β tending or intended to menace: threatening gestures.
- menacing β something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- frightening β to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- grim β stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
- off-putting β provoking uneasiness, dislike, annoyance, or repugnance; disturbing or disagreeable.
- tough β strong and durable; not easily broken or cut.
- hostile β of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy: a hostile nation.
- foreboding β a prediction; portent.
- offensive β causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials.
- repellent β causing distaste or aversion; repulsive.
- glowering β to look or stare with sullen dislike, discontent, or anger.
- abhorrent β If something is abhorrent to you, you hate it very much or consider it completely unacceptable.
- disagreeable β contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.
- dour β sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
- odious β deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable.
- repulsive β causing repugnance or aversion: a repulsive mask.
- ugly β very unattractive or unpleasant to look at; offensive to the sense of beauty; displeasing in appearance.
- unapproachable β not capable of being approached; remote; unreachable: an unapproachable spot; an unapproachable person.
- unfriendly β not amicable; not friendly or kindly in disposition; unsympathetic; aloof: an unfriendly coldness of manner.
- unpleasant β not pleasant; displeasing; disagreeable; offensive: an unpleasant taste; an unpleasant situation; an unpleasant manner.
adjective forbidding
- depressing β Something that is depressing makes you feel sad and disappointed.
- inhospitable β not inclined to, or characterized by, hospitality, as persons or actions; unfriendly.
- unwelcome β a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- dangerous β If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
- alarming β Something that is alarming makes you feel afraid or anxious that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
- ferocious β savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- fierce β menacingly wild, savage, or hostile: fierce animals; a fierce look.
- perilous β involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- life-threatening β endangering life: a life-threatening illness.
- disturbing β upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- dark β When it is dark, there is not enough light to see properly, for example because it is night.
- bleak β If a situation is bleak, it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve.
- dismal β causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy: dismal weather.
noun forbidding
- blue pencil β deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
- enjoinment β (obsolete) A command; an authoritative admonition.
- consent β If you give your consent to something, you give someone permission to do it.
- turndown β that is or may be turned down; folded or doubled down: a turndown collar.
- iron curtain β (sometimes initial capital letters) a barrier to understanding and the exchange of information and ideas created by ideological, political, and military hostility of one country toward another, especially such a barrier between the Soviet Union and its allies and other countries.
- forbiddance β the act of forbidding.
- renouncement β to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
- disavowal β a disowning; repudiation; denial.
- refusal β an act or instance of refusing.
- off limits β forbidden to be patronized, frequented, used, etc., by certain persons: The tavern is off-limits to soldiers.
- bowdlerise β to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- censorship β Censorship is the censoring of books, plays, films, or reports, especially by government officials, because they are considered immoral or secret in some way.
- proscription β the act of proscribing.
- nix β nothing.
- nonacceptance β the act of taking or receiving something offered.