Wordnet 3.0
ADVERB (1)
1.
in an unpleasant or menacing manner;
- Example: "it was forbiddingly dark in the corridor"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Forbidding \For*bid"ding\, a.
Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion,
or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a
forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.
Syn: Disagreeable; unpleasant; displeasing; offensive;
repulsive; odious; abhorrent. -- For*bid"ding*ly, adv.
-- For*bid"ding*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
forbiddingly
adv 1: in an unpleasant or menacing manner; "it was forbiddingly
dark in the corridor"