All forbiddingly synonyms
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.