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forbiddingadjective causing feara dark, forbidding house, that is reputed to be haunted alarming, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, hair-raising, horrendous, horrible, horrifying, intimidating, redoubtable, scary, shocking, spine-chilling, terrible, terrifying daunting, demoralizing, disconcerting, discouraging, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, startling, threatening, troubling, trying, unnervingbone-chilling, creepy, eerie(also eery), weirdappalling, atrocious, awful, grisly, gruesome(also grewsome), hideous, horrid, macabre, monstrous, nightmarish calming, comforting, consoling, inviting, lulling, pacifying, quieting, reassuring, relaxing, soothing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing)nonintimidating, nonthreatening harsh and threatening in manner or appearancetold us in a forbidding voice to stop calling him by that name austere, dour, fierce, flinty, grim, gruff, intimidating, lowering(also louring), rough, rugged, severe, stark, steely, stern, ungentle bleak, cold, hostile, inhospitable, inimical, unfriendly, unsympatheticadamant, bound, determined, firm, intent, purposeful, resolute, resolved, steadfast, unflinchingfixed, hard, hardened, hardheaded, immovable, implacable, inflexible, ironhanded, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, rigid, self-willed, set, stiff, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful(or wilful)immutable, unchangeableblack, cheerless, dark, gloomy, glum, joyless, melancholic, moody, morose, sulky, sullen, surlybrooding, grave, humorless, melancholy, serious, sober, sobersided, solemn, somber(or sombre), staid, unsmiling, weighty benign, benignant, gentle, mild, nonintimidating, tender bland, meek, mellow, soft, soothingeasy, quiet, tranquilagreeable, bright, cheerful, inviting, pleasant, pleasing, sweetglad, happy, lighthearted, merry, mirthful, sunnyfeatherbrained, flighty, frivolous, giddy, goofy, harebrained, light-headed, playful, scatterbrained, silly the act of ordering that something not be done or usedthe landlord's forbidding of loud music after 10:00 p.m. banning, barring, enjoining, interdicting, interdiction, outlawing, prohibiting, prohibition, proscribing, proscription bidding, charging, decreeing, dictation, direction, instructiondeterrence, discouragement, dissuadingrepression, suppressioncoercion, compulsion, constraint, force allowance, permission, sufferance, tolerationapproval, endorsement(also indorsement)authorization, clearance, license(or licence), sanctionencouragement, promotion, supportcompliance, obedience, submission to order not to do or use or to be done or usedsmoking is forbidden throughout the building we forbid you to see him banning, barring, enjoining, interdicting, outlawing, prohibiting, proscribing deterring, discouraging, dissuadingclamping down (on), cracking down (on), crushing, putting down, quashing, quelling, repressing, silencing, snuffing (out), squashing, squelching, subduing, suppressinghalting, precluding, preventing, stoppingembargoing, excluding, ruling out, shutting outdebarring, depriving, disallowing, rejecting, repudiating, vetoingbridling, checking, curbing, inhibiting, reining (in), restrainingblocking, hindering, impeding, obstructing allowing, letting, permitting, suffering approving, endorsing(also indorsing), sanctioningauthorizing, licensing(also licencing), warrantingabetting, advancing, cultivating, encouraging, forwarding, furthering, nourishing, nurturing, promoting, supportingbidding, commanding, orderingabiding, bearing, brooking, countenancing, enduring, tolerating in 1599 |