forbiddingadjective
uk/fəˈbɪd.ɪŋ/us/fɚˈbɪd.ɪŋ/unfriendly and likely to be unpleasant or harmful:
a forbidding row of security guards
With storm clouds rushing over them, the mountains looked dark and forbidding.
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Not being friendly
- (at) daggers drawn idiom
- abrasive
- aloof
- antisocial
- asocial
- austere
- estrange
- estranged
- frostily
- give sb the time of day idiom
- hostile
- impersonal
- mixer
- saturnine
- sour
- unwelcoming
- wintry
- with friends like you, who needs enemies? idiom
- withdraw
- withdrawal
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Dangerous and harmful
forbiddingly
adverb uk/fəˈbɪd.ɪŋ.li/us/fɚˈbɪd.ɪŋ.li/