Synonyms of the word

forbidding

• adj. highly unpleasant or disagreeable.
• adj. threatening or menacing.
• v. present participle of forbid.
• n. The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.

alarming

• v. present participle of alarm.
• adj. causing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening.

baleful

• adj. Portending evil; ominous.
• adj. Miserable, wretched, distressed, suffering.

ban

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To summon; to call out.
• v. (transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
• v. (transitive) To curse; to execrate.
• v. (transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
• v. (transitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
• n. prohibition.
• n. A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to…
• n. The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable…
• n. (obsolete) A curse or anathema.
• n. A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid…
• n. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
• n. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.
• n. A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms…
• n. A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th…

banning

• v. present participle of ban.
• n. The act by which something is banned; a prohibition.

dour

• adj. Stern, harsh and forbidding.
• adj. Unyielding and obstinate.
• adj. Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy.

forbiddance

• n. an official prohibition or edict against something.

grim

• adj. dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
• adj. rigid and unrelenting.
• adj. ghastly or sinister.
• adj. (Britain, slang) disgusting; gross.

menacing

• adj. Suggesting imminent harm.
• adj. Threatening.
• v. present participle of menace.
• n. The act of making menaces or threats.

minacious

• adj. (now rare) Threatening, menacing.

minatory

• adj. Threatening, menacing.

ominous

• adj. Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.
• adj. Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen; threatening; portentous; inauspicious.

prohibition

• n. An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
• n. A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.

sinister

• adj. Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in bar sinister).
• adj. Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.
• adj. Of the left side.
• adj. (heraldry) On the left side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the right side to the viewer.
• adj. (obsolete) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest.

threatening

• v. present participle of threaten.
• adj. Presenting a threat; menacing; frightening.
• n. An act of threatening; a threat.

unpleasant

• adj. Not pleasant.