What are the antonyms for FORBIDDING?
- approachable, calm, friendly, compliment, meek, thick, consoling, amorous, praise, calming, pleased, easy, bright, cheery, endorsement, frivolous, recommendation, concerned, light-headed, lovable, quiet, undaunting, approve, soothing, lulling, hopeful, allow, pacifying, tranquilizing, sanction, reassuring, permit, goofy, sociable, comforting, tranquil, glad, sunny, mellow, relaxing, inviting, lighthearted, mild, bland, responsive, benignant, flighty, mirthful, scatterbrained, authorize, tender, plump, harebrained, well-nourished, soft, gentle, joyful, merry, happy, amicable, giddy, unalarming, warm, featherbrained, loving, playful, encouragement, cheerful, silly, approval.
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Synonyms for FORBIDDING
- off-putting,
- sulky,
- chilled,
- contraband,
- horrible,
- loner*,
- ironhanded,
- unimpassioned,
- noisome,
- cold fish,
- abhorrent,
- controlling,
- rugged,
- disconsolate,
- balking,
- uncool,
- renouncements,
- unappeasable,
- macabre,
- deprive,
- uppity,
- horrid,
- restricting,
- smothering,
- wasted,
- interception,
- exclude,
- bony,
- hard line,
- stony,
- baleful,
- deny,
- fetid,
- refusal,
- stuck up,
- Unrepenting,
- remote,
- obstruction,
- discontinuation,
- unconcerned,
- infringing on rights,
- dictate,
- forbiddance,
- dead set,
- exacting,
- hair-raising,
- putting on airs,
- pinched,
- impedance,
- brutish,
- retardation,
- malodorous,
- scary,
- extinction,
- solitary,
- impersonal,
- supercilious,
- grouchy,
- aloof,
- repressing,
- enjoin,
- Quashing,
- standoff,
- warding off,
- Prohibiting,
- exclusive,
- hold up,
- serious,
- blue,
- sick,
- offish,
- bad,
- ban,
- balk,
- cessation,
- Interdictory,
- proscribe,
- cliff,
- dreary,
- unpromising,
- warn,
- rejection,
- unemotional,
- uncongenial,
- hinder,
- painful,
- merciless,
- taciturn,
- passionless,
- bluff,
- need,
- frightful,
- prevent,
- stark,
- feral,
- suppressive,
- exile,
- forbidden,
- say no,
- low,
- baulk,
- base,
- Iron-fisted,
- Ignoring,
- Extraditing,
- Disallowing,
- gross,
- emaciated,
- impervious,
- tremendous,
- foiling,
- non-compliance,
- miasmic,
- arresting,
- mawkish,
- stopping,
- baneful,
- barren,
- dour,
- bleak,
- impeding,
- debarment,
- menacing,
- hindrance,
- thought control,
- prophylactic,
- preclude,
- dingy,
- Renouncing,
- on ice,
- malefic,
- unloving,
- horrendous,
- preclusion,
- cadaverous,
- stubborn,
- coldhearted,
- thwarting,
- abominable,
- bashful,
- sober,
- cheerless,
- deserted,
- frustration,
- Ejecting,
- censor,
- unpleasant,
- anathema,
- cutting off,
- nauseating,
- disgusting,
- inexorable,
- stiff-necked,
- surcease,
- inhuman,
- expulsion,
- hardboiled,
- unworthy,
- formidable,
- intractable,
- Rejecting,
- frightening,
- unsociable,
- hard-boiled,
- Deporting,
- disallow,
- prim,
- disavowals,
- Amputating,
- Eradicating,
- ruthless,
- laid back,
- formal,
- inauspicious,
- block,
- puritanical,
- constraining,
- loathsome,
- check,
- knockback,
- frustrating,
- govern,
- cold-shoulder,
- restraint,
- relegating,
- minacious,
- Unhospitable,
- awful,
- fierce,
- crusty,
- freezing,
- surly,
- declare illegal,
- humourless,
- portentous,
- anorexic,
- grumpy*,
- unregenerate,
- bowdlerization,
- coerce,
- cruel,
- fearful,
- turndown,
- cantankerous,
- spike*,
- bloodcurdling,
- dispiriting,
- slowing,
- dread,
- funereal,
- fulsome,
- restriction,
- stop,
- putting down,
- end,
- discouraging,
- miasmal,
- Ostracizing,
- bloodthirsty,
- hardnosed,
- spare,
- halt,
- malign,
- rebarbative,
- tenacious,
- unexpansive,
- severe,
- restrictions,
- Refusing,
- censoring,
- Stickling,
- Avoiding,
- sickening,
- hard core,
- Forfend,
- inaccessible,
- hush up,
- skeletal,
- savage,
- hardbitten,
- expressionless,
- dark,
- concealing,
- redoubtable,
- aborting,
- meager,
- Unaffable,
- deterrent,
- hiding,
- predictive,
- zoning,
- persistent,
- bar,
- obdurate,
- shrinking,
- ousting,
- Debarring,
- passive,
- dire,
- sullen,
- lowering,
- above,
- require,
- inhibit,
- forbiddings,
- Quieting,
- stifling,
- spine-chilling,
- gloomy,
- pitiless,
- ending,
- cracking down on,
- taboo,
- down,
- lifeless,
- rule out,
- interdiction,
- chill,
- modest,
- skeleton,
- disavowal,
- Deterring,
- Expatriating,
- despicable,
- banning,
- uninterested,
- ask,
- hideous,
- backward,
- go down,
- apocalyptic,
- Hampering,
- fending off,
- blocking,
- hard,
- obviate,
- iron-handed,
- Fiendish,
- inhumane,
- repellent,
- restrained,
- outlaw,
- forbidden fruit,
- incurious,
- uncompromising,
- icy,
- inimical,
- thin,
- ghastly,
- ungenial,
- black,
- repressive,
- remorseless,
- renouncement,
- elimination,
- censorship,
- gruff,
- horrifying,
- Squelching,
- dismal,
- undemonstrative,
- revolting,
- vicious,
- ostracism,
- bizarre,
- brink,
- desolate,
- vile,
- blacklisting,
- detestable,
- hold,
- disapproving,
- dangerous,
- ominous,
- Oppressing,
- obnoxious,
- statute,
- restrictive,
- Eliminating,
- forbid,
- obstruct,
- cold,
- repellant,
- un-regenerate,
- unfriendly,
- Exiling,
- repressed,
- downcast,
- Disbarring,
- anticipation,
- Checking,
- Terminating,
- drear,
- crack down,
- glowering,
- like a bag of bones,
- uninhabitable,
- hopeless,
- Precluding,
- Removing,
- morose,
- shut down,
- effortful,
- desert,
- steely,
- extinguishing,
- off limits,
- terrific,
- threatening,
- harsh,
- termination,
- rigid,
- murderous,
- apart,
- secluded,
- uncontrite,
- solemn,
- refutation,
- lugubrious,
- Suppressing,
- law,
- prohibit,
- interdict,
- lock up,
- gruesome,
- prohibitive,
- homicidal,
- suppression,
- crabby,
- ascetic,
- grotesque,
- lean,
- subdued,
- taboo*,
- lank,
- fearsome,
- casual,
- Restraining,
- barbarous,
- enjoining,
- heartless,
- repulsive,
- discreet,
- frigid,
- Cold-hearted,
- malificent,
- Proscribing,
- confine,
- injunction,
- tough,
- no nonsense,
- unrelenting,
- grave,
- impede,
- Banishing,
- grody,
- abortion,
- saturnine,
- inhibitory,
- delay,
- banishment,
- atrocious,
- frosty,
- unfeeling,
- low-spirited,
- mordant,
- Denying,
- unyielding,
- terrifying,
- dreadful,
- scraggiest,
- cut-off,
- peaky,
- curb,
- distant,
- limiting,
- preventative,
- lone wolf,
- execrable,
- attenuated,
- shut out,
- proscription,
- astringent,
- prudish,
- mephitic,
- moody,
- hateful,
- Boycotting,
- frightfulness,
- hindering,
- dispirited,
- heinous,
- tabu,
- blank,
- offensive,
- prohibitory,
- Repudiating,
- introverted,
- constrained,
- index,
- embargo,
- disagreeable,
- ferocious,
- repress,
- compel,
- rough,
- implacable,
- bare,
- callous,
- pertinacious,
- skin and bones,
- freeze*,
- forbiddingly,
- curbing,
- expelling,
- quenching,
- preventive,
- halting,
- obscene,
- cancel,
- hang-tough,
- guarded,
- stinking,
- Blackballing,
- Proscriptive,
- put-down,
- unfavourable,
- scrawny,
- blue pencil,
- condemn,
- crave,
- indifferent,
- suggestive,
- wintry,
- withdrawn,
- Retarding,
- reserved,
- uncanny,
- mitigation,
- preclusive,
- intimidating,
- stiff,
- Intercepting,
- withholdings,
- bannings,
- avoidance,
- Interdicting,
- horrific,
- inhibiting,
- po-faced,
- stern,
- impotent,
- denial,
- shocking,
- baulking,
- inhibitive,
- Silencing,
- truculent,
- angular,
- Obstructing,
- Subduing,
- Evicting,
- crushing,
- sinister,
- foreboding,
- ugly,
- fell,
- Mitigating,
- prevention,
- restrain,
- detached,
- prohibition,
- Interdictive,
- foetid,
- premonitory,
- sorry,
- inhibition,
- grim,
- haughty,
- withholding,
- glum,
- Discontinuing,
- relentless,
- Muting,
- sombre,
- direful,
- barring,
- forlorn,
- strict,
- veto,
- stymie*,
- drab,
- Excising,
- control,
- shuddersome,
- eerie,
- Forbidder,
- inflexible,
- ardorless,
- wry face,
- gaunt,
- staving off,
- Hard-hearted,
- chilly,
- give way,
- strait-laced,
- bulldog,
- by the book,
- unbending,
- rigorous,
- grisly,
- ill,
- unforgiving,
- Tabooing,
- downhearted,
- put the chill on,
- forestall,
- odious,
- beneath contempt,
- standoffish,
- unpalatable,
- Doomful,
- unlovely,
- Excommunicating,
- ironfisted,
- oppose,
- Curtailing,
- unsmiling,
- exclusion,
- resolute,
- repelling,
- violent,
- terrible,
- unsympathetic,
- forestalling,
- repugnant,
- unresponsive,
- unwelcoming,
- objectionable,
- frowning,
- unapproachable,
- cool,
- reticent,
- peaked,
- nonconsent,
- hard shell,
- removed,
- somber,
- ungentle,
- churlish,
- iron curtain,
- obviation,
- depressed,
- scraggy,
- awesome,
- austere,
- repression,
- sky-high,
- brutal,
- no-no,
- alarming,
- scowling,
- below contempt,
- bind,
- gloomily,
- rawboned,
- financial means conditional,
- earnest,
- Excluding,
- Outlawing,
- ignoble,
- nonacceptance,
- thick-skinned,
- NOS,
- non-acceptance,
- sour,
- enjoinment,
- debar,
- nix,
- Preventing,
- flinty,
- heavy,
- precipice,
- forbidding,
- Precursive,
- crabbed,
- dogged,
- quelling,
- unloved,
- crude,
- nasty,
- hostile,
- depressing,
- uninviting,
- non-consent,
- inhospitable,
- Delaying,
- concealment,
- antagonistic,
- Muffling,
- haggard,
- Ceasing,
- contemptible,
- retiring,
- splenetic,
- impassive,
- dourly,
- foul,
- noxious,
- minatory,
- arrest,
- beastly,
- disqualifying,
- curmudgeonly,
- suppressed,
- constrain,
- ice-cold,
- coldshoulder,
- withhold,
- stringent,
- restrict.
Usage Examples for FORBIDDING
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He had been frightened by the vague perception of danger before, but now, as he looked at that life again, his eyes seemed able to pierce the fantastic veil of creepers and leaves, to look past the solid trunks, to see through the forbidding gloom- and the mystery was disclosed- enchanting, subduing, beautiful. - "An Outcast of the Islands" by Joseph Conrad
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With beating hearts the two boys entered the forbidding- looking glen. - "The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly" by Margaret Burnham
