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[ fer-bid-ing, fawr- ] / fərˈbɪd ɪŋ, fɔr- / SEE SYNONYMS FOR forbidding ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivegrim; unfriendly; hostile; sinister: his forbidding countenance. dangerous; threatening: forbidding clouds; forbidding cliffs. Origin of forbiddingFirst recorded in 1710–15; forbid + -ing2 OTHER WORDS FROM forbiddingfor·bid·ding·ly, adverbfor·bid·ding·ness, nounun·for·bid·ding, adjectiveWORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH forbiddingforbidding , forebodingWords nearby forbiddingforbidden, forbidden band, Forbidden City, forbidden fruit, forbidden transition, forbidding, forbore, forborne, Forbush decrease, forby, force Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for forbiddingGraterford is a forbidding, shabby, woebegone facility built in 1929. Here’s a Reform Even the Koch Brothers and George Soros Can Agree On|Tina Brown|November 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST As forbidding as this terrain is, there is another force at work on the ocean surface – the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. MH370 Debris Is Lost Forever, Can the Plane Be Found Without It?|Clive Irving|September 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST “Mujahid pledging allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Islamic State commanding good and forbidding evil,” it reads. The Mystery of Donald Ray Morgan, the 44-Year-Old American Who Loved ISIS|Michael Daly|August 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST The guidelines go further in forbidding the mere consideration of any significant political action against Israel. How Hillel Is Losing Touch With the People It Purports to Embrace|Israeli Opposition Network|December 16, 2013|DAILY BEAST
And this peculiar Camelot is set down in a vast natural desert, forbidding, unknowable. ‘Drive’ Author James Sallis on His Sequel, ‘Driven’|Alex Dueben|April 4, 2012|DAILY BEAST Only in forbidding tenement-house manufacture absolutely can there be any safety for either consumer or producer. Prisoners of Poverty|Helen Campbell Joan had never seen him appear like this, and she shrank as from another and forbidding side of the man. The Border Legion|Zane Grey It was the only room that had been finished off, and the garret outside looked dark and forbidding. Facing the World|Horatio Alger But this forbidding, wreck-strewn land of wild, jutting crags has a weird beauty of its own. Heroes of To-Day|Mary R. Parkman For instance, we have been forbidding the Austrians to join with Germany, to emigrate, or to obtain the raw materials of industry. The Problem of China|Bertrand Russell
British Dictionary definitions for forbidding
adjectivehostile or unfriendly dangerous or ominous Derived forms of forbiddingforbiddingly, adverbforbiddingness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to forbiddingsinister, threatening, menacing, frightening, grim, off-putting, tough, hostile, foreboding, offensive, repellent, glowering, abhorrent, disagreeable, dour, odious, repulsive, ugly, unapproachable, unfriendly |