FORBIDDINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forbiddingly mean? 

• FORBIDDINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb FORBIDDINGLY has 1 sense:

1. in an unpleasant or menacing manner

  Familiarity information: FORBIDDINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORBIDDINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an unpleasant or menacing manner

Context example:

it was forbiddingly dark in the corridor

Pertainym:

forbidding (harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance)

 Context examples 

It was a hard day’s run, up the Cañon, through Sheep Camp, past the Scales and the timber line, across glaciers and snowdrifts hundreds of feet deep, and over the great Chilcoot Divide, which stands between the salt water and the fresh and guards forbiddingly the sad and lonely North.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)