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Synonyms for forbidding
fərˈbɪd ɪŋ, fɔr-for·bid·ding
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
forbidding
Synonyms:
arrogant, austere, crabbed, disagreeable, displeasing, dreary, gloomy, glum, grim, harsh, hateful, ill-humored, ill-natured, offensive, repellent, repelling, repulsive, unkind, unpleasantAntonyms:
agreeable, attractive, good-natured, kind, kindly, obliging, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
forbidding
Synonyms:
repulsive, deterrent, prohibitory, offensiveAntonyms:
attractive, encouraging, alluring, seductive, permissive
Princeton's WordNet
ban, banning, forbiddance, forbiddingadjective
an official prohibition or edict against something
Synonyms:
prohibition, ban, forbiddance, proscription, inhibition, banningAntonyms:
unalarming, pleasantdour, 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
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, minaciousAntonyms:
unalarming, pleasantbaleful, 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"
Synonyms:
grim, inauspicious, sullen, minacious, baneful, lowering, black, baleful, dark, sinister, heavy, minatory, dour, ominous, menacing, ill, threateningAntonyms:
pleasant, unalarming
Dictionary of English Synonymes
forbiddingadjective
Synonyms:
repulsive, abhorrent, odious, disagreeable, unpleasant, offensive
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
forbiddingadjective
Synonyms:
repellent, repulsive, offensive, abhorrent, odious, repelling, grimforbiddingnoun
Synonyms:
prohibition, interdiction, proscription, restraint, inhibition, taboo
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#1640 | dark | |
#2145 | heavy | |
#2263 | sorry | |
#4320 | ill | |
#4358 | sick | |
#5429 | ban | |
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#30054 | hateful | |
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#36399 | macabre | |
#37338 | dreary | |
#40726 | menacing | |
#42416 | forbidding | |
#43052 | drab | |
#43152 | repulsive | |
#47042 | ghastly | |
#49169 | unrelenting | |
#50489 | dogged | |
#53038 | austere | |
#55808 | disagreeable | |
#58157 | grisly | |
#58318 | dingy | |
#58451 | sullen | |
#60472 | unforgiving | |
#60499 | unkind | |
#68728 | dour | |
#73839 | inexorable | |
#77107 | glum | |
#77553 | unyielding | |
#80214 | repelling | |
#81752 | downcast | |
#86369 | morose | |
#99646 | proscription | |
#114245 | baleful | |
#117416 | mordant | |
#132519 | baneful | |
#137695 | inauspicious | |
#142674 | displeasing | |
#147160 | dispirited | |
#167212 | disconsolate | |
#169244 | drear | |
#186740 | saturnine | |
#187218 | prohibitory | |
#195687 | glowering | |
#245806 | downhearted | |
#251752 | crabbed |
How to use forbidding in a sentence?
The agricultural sector depends highly on it and it is absolutely necessary to find solutions to replace it before totally forbidding it.
It's a departure from the sort of very forbidding gallery that we're used to.
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.
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.
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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