forbidding

Main Entry:
forbidding [fer-bid-ing, fawr-]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ominous, daunting
Synonyms: abhorrent, disagreeable, dour, foreboding, frightening, glowering, grim, hostile, menacing, odious, off-putting, offensive, repellent, repulsive, sinister, threatening, tough, ugly, unapproachable, unfriendly, unpleasant
Notes: forbidding means harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance, while foreboding is a feeling of evil to come
Antonyms: approachable, friendly, undaunting
Main Entry: aloof
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: remote
Synonyms: above, apart, casual, chilly, cold, cold fish, cool, detached, distant, forbidding, hard-boiled, hard-hearted, haughty, incurious, indifferent, laid back, lone wolf, loner*, offish, on ice, putting on airs, reserved, secluded, solitary, standoffish, stuck up, supercilious, thick-skinned, unapproachable, unconcerned, unfriendly, uninterested, unresponsive, unsociable, unsympathetic, uppity, withdrawn
Antonyms: concerned, friendly, sociable
Main Entry: austere
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: severe in manner
Synonyms: ascetic, astringent, cold, earnest, exacting, forbidding, formal, grave, grim, hard, harsh, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, rigid, rigorous, serious, sober, solemn, somber, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, unfeeling, unrelenting
Antonyms: bland, calm, gentle, meek, mild
Main Entry: censorship
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: forbiddance; ban
Synonyms: blackout, blue pencil, bowdlerization, control, forbidding, hush up, infringing on rights, iron curtain, restriction, suppression, thought control
Antonyms: approval, compliment, encouragement, endorsement, praise, recommendation, sanction
Main Entry: dark
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: angry, upset
Synonyms: dour, forbidding, frowning, glowering, glum, ominous, scowling, sulky, sullen, threatening
Antonyms: cheerful, happy, pleased
Main Entry: dour
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: gloomy, grim
Synonyms: bleak, crabbed, dismal, dreary, forbidding, glum, hard, harsh, morose, saturnine, severe, sour, stringent, sulky, sullen, surly, ugly, unfriendly
Antonyms: bright, cheerful, cheery, happy
Main Entry: frigid
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unresponsive
Synonyms: aloof, austere, chilly, cold, cold-hearted, cold-shoulder, cool, forbidding, formal, frosty, icy, impotent, indifferent, lifeless, passionless, passive, repellent, rigid, stiff, unapproachable, unbending, unfeeling, unloving
Antonyms: amicable, amorous, lovable, loving, responsive, warm
Main Entry: gaunt
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: skinny
Synonyms: angular, anorexic, attenuated, bare, bleak, bony, cadaverous, desolate, dismal, dreary, emaciated, forbidding, forlorn, grim, haggard, harsh, lank, lean, like a bag of bones, meager, peaked, peaky, pinched, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, skeleton, skin and bones, spare, thin, wasted
Antonyms: plump, thick, well-nourished
Main Entry: grim
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hopeless, horrible in manner, appearance
Synonyms: austere, barbarous, bleak, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, cruel, crusty, dogged, ferocious, fierce, forbidding, foreboding, formidable, frightful, funereal, ghastly, gloomy, glowering, glum, grisly, grouchy, gruesome, grumpy*, harsh, hideous, horrid, implacable, inexorable, intractable, merciless, morose, ominous, relentless, resolute, ruthless, scowling, severe, shocking, sinister, somber, sour, splenetic, stern, stubborn, sulky, sullen, surly, terrible, truculent, unrelenting, unyielding
Antonyms: bright, cheerful, happy, hopeful, joyful, sunny
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