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All forbiddingly synonyms

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adverb forbiddingly

  • grimly — stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
  • bleakly — bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
  • dismally — causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy: dismal weather.
  • sternly — firm, strict, or uncompromising: stern discipline.
  • gloomily — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
  • dourly — sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
  • harshly — ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect: harsh treatment; harsh manners.
  • severely — harsh; unnecessarily extreme: severe criticism; severe laws.
  • uninviting — not inviting; unpleasant: a region with an uninviting climate.
  • inhospitably — not inclined to, or characterized by, hospitality, as persons or actions; unfriendly.
  • depressingly — In a depressing manner.
  • worryingly — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
  • disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
  • unpleasant — not pleasant; displeasing; disagreeable; offensive: an unpleasant taste; an unpleasant situation; an unpleasant manner.
  • unpalatable — not palatable; unpleasant to the taste.
  • disagreeably — In a disagreeable manner.
  • threateningly — tending or intended to menace: threatening gestures.
  • dangerously — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
  • perilously — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
  • ferociously — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
  • fiercely — menacingly wild, savage, or hostile: fierce animals; a fierce look.
  • ominously — portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds.
  • menacingly — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
  • frighteningly — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
  • alarmingly — causing alarm or fear: an alarming case of pneumonia; an alarming lack of respect.
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