Forbidding
Forbidding adjective - Causing fear.
Usage example: a dark, forbidding house, that is reputed to be haunted
Hair-raising and forbidding are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hair-raising" instead an adjective "Forbidding".
Hair-raising
Hair-raising adjective - Causing fear.
Usage example: hair-raising stories of headless corpses and disembodied screams
Forbidding and hair-raising are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Forbidding" instead an adjective phrase "Hair-raising".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- disturbing and forbidding
- disturbing and hair-raising
- baleful and forbidding
- baleful and hair-raising
- sinister and forbidding
- sinister and hair-raising
- terrible and forbidding
- terrible and hair-raising
- frightful and forbidding
- frightful and hair-raising
- horrible and forbidding
- horrible and hair-raising
- shocking and forbidding
- shocking and hair-raising
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