Words and phrases that have a meaning related to forbidding: (150 results)
Often used in the same context:
prohibiting, banning, barring, restricting, outlawing, precluding, proscribes, requiring, disallowing, exempting, stipulating, authorizing, discourage, prevents, enjoining, permitted, mandating, contravenes, imposing, circumventing, violating, disobeyed, confining, obliging, limiting, coercing, refraining, instructing, debars, dissuades, skirting, criminalize, rescinding, disapproves, decreeing, tabooed, confiscating, penalizing, frowns, enforcing, disfavoring, governs, frown upon, suspending, disdaining, illegalizing, toughens, graven image, noncomplying, desist, annuls, preempts, without, defying, invalidating, illegalize, revokes, intimidating, disqualifies, gag, obscure, restraining, expropriates, forswearing, denouncing, aggressing, jim crow, obligates, subjecting, repeals, secluding, postdating, compel, banishing, disfellowship, transgressing, nullifying, regulating, obeying, consent, forcing, codifying, dictating, objecting, allowed, breaching, discriminates, muzzling, punishes, applies, expelling, circumscribes, parol evidence rule, withhold, denying, flouting, overturning, disregarding, shunning, astir, refusing, profaning, uninviting, unattractive, unlovely, inviting, appealing, repulsive, unprepossessing, unpromising, bleak, curious, engaging, inhospitable, pleasanter, unfamiliar, pleasing, dreary, rugged, uninspiring, unromantic, austere
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., anti-drug law, austere, crusty, curmudgeonly, forbiddance, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured, inhibition, prohibition, redoubt, sconce, stay, stern
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Also try:alarming, baleful, ban, dour, grim, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening, ugly, unpleasant
— Nouns for forbidding: look, aspect, task, country, prospect, barrier, place, appearance, countenance, frown, wall, more...
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