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Antonyms for forbidding
fərˈbɪd ɪŋ, fɔr-for·bid·ding

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. forbidding

    Antonyms:
    attractive, encouraging, alluring, seductive, permissive

    Synonyms:
    repulsive, deterrent, prohibitory, offensive

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. ban, banning, forbiddance, forbiddingadjective

    an official prohibition or edict against something

    Antonyms:
    unalarming, pleasant

    Synonyms:
    prohibition, ban, forbiddance, proscription, inhibition, banning

  2. dour, forbidding, grimadjective

    harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance

    "a dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie

    Antonyms:
    unalarming, pleasant

    Synonyms:
    down(p), dispirited, ominous, pertinacious, baleful, sullen, dogged, dark, moody, disconsolate, threatening, glum, black, grisly, drear, minatory, low, unrelenting, down in the mouth, stern, blue, glowering, unappeasable, gruesome, sour, sinister, macabre, downhearted, grim, saturnine, tenacious, mordant, drab, dour, downcast, menacing, unyielding, low-spirited, relentless, unforgiving, sick, gloomy, morose, ghastly, depressed, sorry, dingy, inexorable, dreary, dismal, persistent, minacious

  3. baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threateningadjective

    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

    "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly"

    Antonyms:
    pleasant, unalarming

    Synonyms:
    grim, inauspicious, sullen, minacious, baneful, lowering, black, baleful, dark, sinister, heavy, minatory, dour, ominous, menacing, ill, threatening

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words5.0 / 1 vote

  1. forbiddingadjective

    Synonyms:
    repellent, repulsive, offensive, abhorrent, odious, repelling, grim

  2. forbiddingnoun

    Synonyms:
    prohibition, interdiction, proscription, restraint, inhibition, taboo

How to use forbidding in a sentence?

  1. Mark Rappolt:

    It's a departure from the sort of very forbidding gallery that we're used to.

  2. Stephen Diehl:

    We're not 'banning' or 'forbidding' anything. We've simply made a decision to stop selling these products in our own stores. Students — or faculty or staff for that matter — are still free to drink these beverages if they wish, and there are plenty of places in our town where they can be purchased. We just don't want to encourage or contribute to their consumption.

  3. Jeremy Dys:

    Whether a student is being patriotic or engaging in religious speech, there is no law in this country forbidding a student from telling his or her classmates, ‘God bless America’ and it is illegal for a school to censor a student for doing so.

  4. Cathryn Oakley:

    These are people who are old enough to enlist in the military, buy guns, buy alcohol, buy tobacco, get married, do a variety of other things that we leave to adults to do, and yet we would be forbidding them from being able to receive gender affirming care, as if that is in some way a more permanent decision.

  5. Mark Rappolt:

    It's partly about breaking away from the conventional gallery model which is sort of a slightly oppressive white-cube space that could be in any place almost at any time and moving toward a series of galleries that are specific to their content, it's a departure from the sort of very forbidding gallery that we're used to.

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#5461attractive
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#24966seductive
#29420agreeable
#31143pleasurable
#40081alluring
#40296permissive
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#77989obliging

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