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

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1. forbidding

   Synonyms:
   arrogant, austere, crabbed, disagreeable, displeasing, dreary, gloomy, glum, grim, harsh, hateful, ill-humored, ill-natured, offensive, repellent, repelling, repulsive, unkind, unpleasant

   Antonyms:
   agreeable, attractive, good-natured, kind, kindly, obliging, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable

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1. forbidding

   Synonyms:
   repulsive, deterrent, prohibitory, offensive

   Antonyms:
   attractive, encouraging, alluring, seductive, permissive

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1. ban, banning, forbiddance, forbiddingadjective

   an official prohibition or edict against something

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

   Antonyms:
   unalarming, pleasant

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

   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

   Antonyms:
   unalarming, pleasant

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"

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

   Antonyms:
   pleasant, unalarming

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1. forbiddingadjective

   Synonyms:
   repulsive, abhorrent, odious, disagreeable, unpleasant, offensive

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1. forbiddingadjective

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

2. forbiddingnoun

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "forbidding":

   prohibiting, banning

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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. 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.

3. Angelique Delahaye:

   The agricultural sector depends highly on it and it is absolutely necessary to find solutions to replace it before totally forbidding it.

4. 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.

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.