What is another word for forbidding?
755 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ fəbˈɪdɪŋ], [ fəbˈɪdɪŋ], [ f_ə_b_ˈɪ_d_ɪ_ŋ]Table of Contents
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)
- 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)
- refusal (noun)
- excluding (verb)
- forbid (verb)
- prohibiting (verb)
- other synonyms
- portentous
- other relevant words
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- withdrawn,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.
- 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.
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.
Paraphrases for Forbidding:
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Equivalence
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Verb, gerund or present participle
Prohibiting, prohibits, banning.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
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Independent
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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.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
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Other Related
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Verb, gerund or present participle
prohibition, Interdicting.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
Antonyms for Forbidding:
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adj.
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forbidding
undaunting, approachable, friendly.
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gaunt
well-nourished, plump, thick.
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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.
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forbidding
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n.
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censorship
encouragement, praise, compliment, recommendation, endorsement, approval.
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censorship
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v.