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Pronunciation:
[ fəbˈɪdɪŋ], [ fəbˈɪdɪŋ], [ f_ə_b_ˈɪ_d_ɪ_ŋ]
Related words: forbidding island, forbidding place, forbidding land, forbidding mountains, forbidding story, forbidding view, forbidding path
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Similar words for forbidding:
- all (adjective)
- aloof (adjective)
- austere (adjective)
- controlling (adjective)
- dark (adjective)
- dour (adjective)
- forbidding (adjective)
- frigid (adjective)
- gaunt (adjective)
- grim (adjective)
- hateful (adjective)
- icy (adjective)
- ominous (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- passionless (adjective)
- prohibitive (adjective)
- remorseless (adjective)
- severe (adjective)
- stern (adjective)
- strict (adjective)
- ugly (adjective)
- alarming (noun)
- baleful (noun)
- ban (noun)
- banning (noun)
- censorship (noun)
- forbiddance (noun)
- forbidding (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- refusal (noun)
- excluding (verb)
- forbid (verb)
- prohibiting (verb)
- other synonyms
- portentous
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Forbidding:
adj.
• all (adjective) • aloof (adjective)- distant,
- hard-boiled,
- indifferent,
- secluded,
- cool,
- unsympathetic,
- lone wolf,
- above,
- offish,
- haughty,
- chilly,
- putting on airs,
- standoffish,
- apart,
- on ice,
- incurious,
- unsociable,
- thick-skinned,
- detached,
- casual,
- cold fish,
- uninterested,
- withdrawn,
- uppity,
- cold,
- unconcerned,
- unresponsive,
- solitary,
- supercilious,
- reserved.
- hard,
- grave,
- unfeeling,
- stringent,
- inexorable,
- harsh,
- rigid,
- unrelenting,
- serious,
- solemn,
- stern,
- stiff,
- sober,
- exacting,
- somber,
- obdurate,
- earnest,
- formal,
- inflexible,
- ascetic,
- rigorous,
- astringent.
- menacing,
- offensive,
- abhorrent,
- sinister,
- repellent,
- unpleasant,
- odious,
- foreboding,
- threatening,
- off-putting,
- disagreeable,
- tough,
- unfriendly,
- glowering.
- desolate,
- cadaverous,
- thin,
- spare,
- forlorn,
- emaciated,
- lean,
- wasted,
- peaked,
- rawboned,
- skeletal,
- skeleton,
- pinched,
- bare,
- scrawny,
- lank,
- attenuated,
- bony,
- haggard,
- angular,
- meager,
- anorexic.
- intractable,
- hideous,
- terrible,
- funereal,
- grouchy,
- merciless,
- gruesome,
- ruthless,
- ghastly,
- ferocious,
- unyielding,
- crusty,
- churlish,
- fierce,
- implacable,
- resolute,
- horrid,
- barbarous,
- frightful,
- splenetic,
- shocking,
- truculent,
- gloomy,
- grisly,
- stubborn,
- cantankerous,
- cruel,
- dogged,
- relentless.
- de-testable,
- de spiteful,
- de-spiteful,
- shuddersome,
- more shuddersome,
- more uncool,
- un-desirable,
- most cussed,
- more cussed,
- un desirable,
- most uncool,
- uncool,
- most shuddersome,
- de testable,
- in famous,
- un-cool,
- dis gusting,
- dis-gusting,
- un cool.
- steelier,
- un welcoming,
- more unwelcoming,
- un-welcoming,
- most unwelcoming,
- un-emotional,
- steeliest,
- un emotional.
- more malefic,
- in-auspicious,
- illfated,
- in auspicious,
- most malificent,
- pre-monitory,
- un luckier,
- more presaging,
- pre monitory,
- illboding,
- most doomful,
- most malefic,
- un-luckier,
- most presaging,
- un-lucky,
- un propitious,
- ill boding,
- un luckiest,
- more doomful,
- pre cursive,
- ill fated,
- pre-cursive,
- un promising,
- un-promising,
- most premonitory,
- most unpromising,
- Ill-boding,
- more malificent,
- more unpromising,
- more premonitory,
- more precursive,
- in-hospitable,
- most precursive,
- un-luckiest,
- in hospitable,
- un lucky.
- prohibitive,
- premonitory,
- peaky,
- skin and bones,
- hardbitten,
- passionless,
- unwelcoming,
- steely,
- malefic,
- hateful,
- scraggy,
- cold-shoulder,
- dead set,
- coldhearted,
- ugly,
- Unrepenting,
- Doomful,
- austere,
- grim,
- Hard-hearted,
- hard line,
- inhumane,
- scraggiest,
- Precursive,
- coldshoulder,
- uncontrite,
- stiff-necked,
- stuck up,
- unpromising,
- hang-tough,
- strict,
- ominous,
- hard core,
- Stickling,
- by the book,
- icy,
- dark,
- unloving,
- hardboiled,
- hard shell,
- malificent,
- repulsive,
- unregenerate,
- ironfisted,
- no nonsense,
- ardorless,
- dour,
- Iron-fisted,
- like a bag of bones,
- laid back,
- gaunt,
- un-regenerate.
- in-sensitive,
- most uncontrite,
- more uncontrite,
- in tolerant,
- un compassionate,
- un-compassionate,
- un regenerate,
- un remitting,
- un-contrite,
- un-merciful,
- un-remitting,
- un forgiving,
- in humane,
- more unregenerate,
- in-humane,
- most unregenerate,
- in-human,
- un repenting,
- un-repenting,
- un-forgiving,
- hard bitten,
- in sensitive,
- more unrepenting,
- in human,
- most unrepenting,
- un merciful,
- un contrite.
- more hang tough,
- most hardheaded,
- more stiff-necked,
- more stiff necked,
- most mortified,
- most hang tough,
- stiff necked,
- stiffnecked,
- most hang-tough,
- hardshell,
- more mortified,
- most hangtough,
- dyed in the wool,
- hangtough,
- hardheaded,
- most stiff necked,
- hardline,
- most stiffnecked,
- more stiffnecked,
- more hang-tough,
- most stiff-necked,
- more hangtough,
- by book.
n.
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- dangerous,
- frightening.
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- warn.
- ban.
- off limit,
- out-lawings,
- pro scribing,
- pro-scribing,
- inter dict,
- proscribings,
- outlawings,
- out lawing,
- out-lawing,
- forbiddance,
- out lawings,
- inter-dict.
v.
• excluding (verb)- Denying,
- Disbarring,
- Banishing,
- barring,
- Excising,
- Excommunicating,
- Eliminating,
- Removing,
- disqualifying,
- Evicting,
- Eradicating,
- Rejecting,
- Excluding,
- Deporting,
- Boycotting,
- Exiling,
- Ignoring,
- Ejecting,
- Proscribing,
- expelling,
- Repudiating,
- Prohibiting,
- Ostracizing,
- Disallowing,
- Extraditing,
- Renouncing,
- Expatriating,
- blacklisting,
- ousting,
- Blackballing,
- relegating,
- Amputating.
- exclude,
- obviate,
- embargo,
- halt,
- check,
- restrain,
- impede,
- hold up,
- Forfend,
- inhibit,
- shut out,
- cancel,
- preclude,
- put the chill on,
- interdict,
- deprive,
- shut down,
- debar,
- say no,
- declare illegal,
- hinder,
- stop,
- proscribe,
- restrict,
- enjoin,
- prevent,
- oppose,
- disallow,
- censor,
- deny,
- forestall,
- obstruct,
- withhold,
- rule out,
- lock up,
- block,
- veto.
Other synonyms:
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- uninviting.
- exile,
- Interdicting,
- avoidance,
- removed,
- inimical,
- sick,
- drear,
- dread,
- detestable,
- prevention,
- depressed,
- gross,
- painful,
- impeding,
- rugged,
- end,
- shrinking,
- horrifying,
- undemonstrative,
- condemn,
- confine,
- balking,
- termination,
- preventive,
- inhibitory,
- unworthy,
- repugnant,
- anathema,
- elimination,
- unlovely,
- repellant,
- retardation,
- unforgiving,
- Fiendish,
- dispiriting,
- forbid,
- dourly,
- impassive,
- eerie,
- zoning,
- bind,
- prudish,
- blank,
- compel,
- curmudgeonly,
- disgusting,
- crabby,
- retiring,
- prohibit,
- refusal,
- hair-raising,
- extinguishing,
- index,
- deterrent,
- crave,
- impedance,
- obscene,
- rejection,
- suggestive,
- forbidden,
- contraband,
- gloomily,
- restrictive,
- fetid,
- bad,
- grotesque,
- awful,
- flinty,
- interception,
- nauseating,
- heartless,
- dreadful,
- unloved,
- frigid,
- fulsome,
- ill,
- coerce,
- cliff,
- sombre,
- frightfulness,
- abortion,
- obstruction,
- crack down,
- bloodthirsty,
- obnoxious,
- curb,
- arresting,
- ignoble,
- forbidden fruit,
- prohibition,
- thwarting,
- arrest,
- below contempt,
- noisome,
- taboo,
- unappeasable,
- beastly,
- forbiddingly,
- ostracism,
- quenching,
- deserted,
- inaccessible,
- remorseless,
- remote,
- dire,
- crude,
- mephitic,
- brutal,
- lowering,
- constrain,
- sickening,
- exclusive,
- ask,
- base,
- savage,
- foetid,
- go down,
- injunction,
- unsmiling,
- Squelching,
- portentous,
- ungenial,
- halting,
- repelling,
- stopping,
- bulldog,
- intimidating,
- discouraging,
- Mitigating,
- malign,
- concealment,
- unfavourable,
- ungentle,
- uncompromising,
- freezing,
- feral,
- desert,
- mordant,
- extinction,
- terrifying,
- impersonal,
- bloodcurdling,
- backward,
- preclusion,
- prophylactic,
- baulk,
- modest,
- tenacious,
- unpalatable,
- disconsolate,
- awesome,
- restraint,
- prim,
- restrained,
- debarment,
- hindrance,
- loathsome,
- Delaying,
- fearsome,
- enjoining,
- mawkish,
- taciturn,
- inhuman,
- warding off,
- noxious,
- impervious,
- unimpassioned,
- black,
- heinous,
- delay,
- Intercepting,
- nasty,
- staving off,
- horrible,
- prohibitory,
- slowing,
- mitigation,
- rebarbative,
- inauspicious,
- cheerless,
- guarded,
- Ceasing,
- repressed,
- Unaffable,
- standoff,
- hiding,
- violent,
- crushing,
- fending off,
- downcast,
- aborting,
- frustrating,
- frustration,
- dictate,
- abominable,
- forestalling,
- exclusion,
- obviation,
- Quashing,
- atrocious,
- brink,
- suppressed,
- miasmic,
- brutish,
- downhearted,
- Interdictive,
- expulsion,
- grody,
- denial,
- anticipation,
- constrained,
- objectionable,
- Deterring,
- blue,
- despicable,
- baneful,
- Muffling,
- turndown,
- suppressive,
- pitiless,
- foiling,
- spine-chilling,
- redoubtable,
- contemptible,
- hindering,
- vicious,
- homicidal,
- terrific,
- hopeless,
- Discontinuing,
- discontinuation,
- macabre,
- Retarding,
- Interdictory,
- repression,
- introverted,
- unexpansive,
- uncanny,
- smothering,
- lugubrious,
- quelling,
- reticent,
- Silencing,
- Hampering,
- repressing,
- dispirited,
- law,
- strait-laced,
- outlaw,
- foul,
- murderous,
- fearful,
- horrific,
- Debarring,
- stinking,
- depressing,
- unemotional,
- scary,
- tremendous,
- expressionless,
- moody,
- censoring,
- repress,
- baulking,
- Muting,
- govern,
- put-down,
- cut-off,
- revolting,
- low,
- horrendous,
- vile,
- bluff,
- statute,
- down,
- chilled,
- ice-cold,
- give way,
- repressive,
- require,
- drab,
- hold,
- bizarre,
- surcease,
- cracking down on,
- Tabooing,
- uninhabitable,
- precipice,
- proscription,
- no-no,
- cutting off,
- beneath contempt,
- balk,
- uncongenial,
- concealing,
- rough,
- po-faced,
- Checking,
- execrable,
- ending,
- stark,
- Forbidder,
- low-spirited,
- pertinacious,
- discreet,
- preventative,
- bashful,
- chill,
- putting down,
- limiting,
- inhibition,
- Obstructing,
- bar,
- wintry,
- apocalyptic,
- stony,
- Proscriptive,
- antagonistic,
- heavy,
- puritanical,
- banishment,
- cessation,
- barren,
- tabu,
- Subduing,
- inhibitive,
- persistent,
- Avoiding,
- wry face,
- malodorous,
- withholding,
- stifling,
- Terminating,
- sorry,
- interdiction,
- subdued,
- gruff,
- fell,
- direful,
- Quieting,
- dingy,
- callous,
- miasmal,
- need,
- humourless,
- preclusive.
How to use "Forbidding" in context?
There are few synonyms for forbidding, but one of the most common phrases is "to prohibit." Prohibiting usually refers to an action or something that is prevented from happening. It can also refer to an instruction to stop doing something. Forbidding is similar, in that it prevents something from happening. It is often used in the form of a commandment or when issuing a warning.
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Equivalence
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Verb, gerund or present participle
banning, Prohibiting, prohibits.
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Independent
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Verb, gerund or present participle
averting, barring, blocking, enjoining, halting, hindering, impeding, imposing, inhibiting, prevention, restricting, stopping, thwarting, travelling, Abolishing, Banishing, Denying, Depriving, Disallowing, Eliminating, Excluding, Exempting, Illegalizing, Outlawing, Refusing, Restraining, curbing, Precluding, Preventing, Proscribing, Suppressing.
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prohibition, Interdicting.
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