Synonyms for Forbidding:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • forbidding.
  •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  • withdrawn,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.
  •austere (adjective)
  • hard,
  • grave,
  • unfeeling,
  • stringent,
  • inexorable,
  • harsh,
  • rigid,
  • unrelenting,
  • serious,
  • solemn,
  • stern,
  • stiff,
  • sober,
  • exacting,
  • somber,
  • obdurate,
  • earnest,
  • formal,
  • inflexible,
  • ascetic,
  • rigorous,
  • astringent.
  •controlling (adjective)
  • Restraining.
  •dark (adjective)
  • frowning,
  • scowling,
  • glum,
  • sullen,
  • sulky.
  •dour (adjective)
  • bleak,
  • saturnine,
  • crabbed,
  • surly,
  • dismal,
  • sour,
  • dreary,
  • morose.
  •forbidding (adjective)
  • menacing,
  • offensive,
  • abhorrent,
  • sinister,
  • repellent,
  • unpleasant,
  • odious,
  • foreboding,
  • threatening,
  • off-putting,
  • disagreeable,
  • tough,
  • unfriendly,
  • glowering.
  •frigid (adjective)
  • impotent,
  • passive,
  • unbending,
  • Cold-hearted,
  • lifeless,
  • aloof,
  • frosty.
  •gaunt (adjective)
  • desolate,
  • cadaverous,
  • thin,
  • spare,
  • forlorn,
  • emaciated,
  • lean,
  • wasted,
  • peaked,
  • rawboned,
  • skeletal,
  • skeleton,
  • pinched,
  • bare,
  • scrawny,
  • lank,
  • attenuated,
  • bony,
  • haggard,
  • angular,
  • meager,
  • anorexic.
  •grim (adjective)
  • 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.
  •hateful (adjective)
  • 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.
  •icy (adjective)
  • steelier,
  • un welcoming,
  • more unwelcoming,
  • un-welcoming,
  • most unwelcoming,
  • un-emotional,
  • steeliest,
  • un emotional.
  •ominous (adjective)
  • 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.
  •passionless (adjective)
  • more ardorless,
  • most ardorless.
  •prohibitive (adjective)
  • sky-high,
  • financial means conditional.
  •remorseless (adjective)
  • 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.
  •severe (adjective)
  • ironhanded,
  • effortful,
  • hardnosed,
  • iron-handed.
  •stern (adjective)
  • 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.
  •strict (adjective)
  • more stickling,
  • most iron fisted,
  • nononsense,
  • most unpermissive,
  • up-tight,
  • more iron-fisted,
  • un-permissive,
  • more ironfisted,
  • up tight,
  • more unpermissive,
  • unpermissive,
  • most iron-fisted,
  • more iron fisted,
  • un permissive,
  • iron fisted,
  • most ironfisted,
  • most stickling.
  •ugly (adjective)
  • fellest.

• n.

  •
  • unapproachable,
  • hostile,
  • severe,
  • inhospitable.
  •
  • dangerous,
  • frightening.
  •
  • warn.
  •alarming (noun)
  • alarming.
  •baleful (noun)
  • baleful.
  •ban (noun)
  • ban.
  •banning (noun)
  • banning.
  •censorship (noun)
  • control,
  • restriction,
  • hush up,
  • blackout,
  • suppression.
  •forbiddance (noun)
  • off limit,
  • out-lawings,
  • pro scribing,
  • pro-scribing,
  • inter dict,
  • proscribings,
  • outlawings,
  • out lawing,
  • out-lawing,
  • forbiddance,
  • out lawings,
  • inter-dict.
  •forbidding (noun)
  • minacious,
  • minatory.
  •refusal (noun)
  • renouncement,
  • NOS,
  • disavowal,
  • non-compliance,
  • withholdings,
  • non-consent,
  • disavowals,
  • nonacceptance,
  • nonconsent,
  • renouncements,
  • enjoinment,
  • knockback,
  • non-acceptance,
  • refutation.

• 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.
  •forbid (verb)
  • 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.
  •prohibiting (verb)
  • inhibiting,
  • Outlawing,
  • blocking,
  • curbing,
  • Refusing,
  • Suppressing,
  • restricting,
  • controlling,
  • Curtailing,
  • Oppressing,
  • constraining,
  • Precluding,
  • Preventing,
  • disapproving.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • formidable,
  • Unhospitable.
  •
  • uninviting.
  •portentous
  • predictive.
  •Other relevant words:
  • 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.

Paraphrases for Forbidding:

• Equivalence

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Prohibiting, prohibits, banning.

• Independent

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Proscribing, Disallowing, restricting, Precluding, Banishing, Excluding, Depriving, hindering, impeding, stopping, Abolishing, Refusing, prevention, imposing, Denying, Restraining, Preventing, Eliminating, barring, inhibiting, Exempting, enjoining, curbing, Suppressing, blocking, thwarting, averting, Illegalizing, Outlawing, halting, travelling.

• Other Related

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    prohibition, Interdicting.

Antonyms for Forbidding:

• adj.

  • aloof
    concerned, sociable.
  • austere
    bland, gentle, calm, mild, meek.
  • dark
    pleased, cheerful, happy.
  • dour
    bright, cheery.
  • forbidding
    undaunting, approachable, friendly.
  • frigid
    lovable, responsive, amorous, warm, loving, amicable.
  • gaunt
    well-nourished, plump, thick.
  • grim
    sunny, hopeful, joyful.
  • Other antonyms:
    goofy, light-headed, frivolous, benignant, mirthful, playful, lulling, soothing, calming, merry, mellow, soft, pacifying, harebrained, glad, quiet, scatterbrained, lighthearted, unalarming, consoling, tranquil, tranquilizing, silly, inviting, relaxing, tender, reassuring, comforting, easy, giddy, featherbrained, flighty.

• n.

  • censorship
    encouragement, praise, compliment, recommendation, endorsement, approval.

• v.

  • forbid
    allow, authorize, approve, sanction, permit.