forbiddingly
adverb
forbiddingly is an adverb meaning “in a forbidding manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-B-I-D-D-I-N-G-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 65 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does forbiddingly mean?
adverb
- 1
in a forbidding manner
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of forbiddingly
- more forbiddingly comparative
- most forbiddingly superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is forbiddingly?
Forbiddingly appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does forbiddingly come from?
From forbidding + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).