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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"