forbidding

Plural: forbiddings

Noun

• an official prohibition or edict against something
• The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.

Verb

• command against
• keep from happening or arising; make impossible
• present participle and gerund of forbid

Adjective Satellite

• harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; ; ; ; - J.M.Barrie
  • "a forbidding scowl"
• threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  • "forbidding thunderclouds"

Adj

• Appearing to be threatening, unfriendly or potentially unpleasant.

Synonyms

baleful, ban, banning, disallow, dour, forbid, forbiddance, foreclose, forestall, grim, interdict, menacing, minacious, minatory, nix, ominous, preclude, prevent, prohibit, proscribe, sinister, threatening, veto, bleak, callous, cheerless, cold, cold-eyed, comfortless, dark, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dolesome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, flint-hearted, forbidding, forlorn, frosty, gayless, gloomsome, gloomy, gray, hard, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, heartless, humorless, icy, insensitive, iron-hearted, joyless, lack-laughter, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, no joke, rigorous, rockhearted, saturnine, severe, solemn, somber, sombre, spiritless, stern, stonehearted, stony, stonyhearted, strict, sullen, sunless, tough, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, uninviting, unmerry, unmoved, unsympathetic, wintry, woeful

Antonyms

allow, permit, approachable, inviting, welcoming

Anagrams of forbidding