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- Dictionaryforbidding/fəˈbɪdɪŋ/
adjective
- 1. unfriendly or threatening in appearance: "a grim and forbidding building" Similar Opposite
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Forbidding means unfriendly and likely to be unpleasant or harmful. Learn how to use this adjective in sentences and see synonyms, related words, and translations.
- English (US)
FORBIDDING meaning: 1. unfriendly and likely to be...
- Znaczenie Forbidding, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary
forbidding definicja: 1. unfriendly and likely to be...
- Forbidding: Czech Translation
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- Forbidding: Danish Translation
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- Indonesian Translation
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- Forbidding in German
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- Forbidding: Polish Translation
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- English (US)
Forbidding is an adjective that means making something difficult or impossible to approach, or disagreeable or repellent. It can also mean grim or menacing. See synonyms, examples, word history and more.
Forbidding means having a severe, unfriendly, or threatening appearance. Learn how to use this adjective in sentences and see synonyms, pronunciation, and word frequency.
Forbidding definition: grim; unfriendly; hostile; sinister. See examples of FORBIDDING used in a sentence.
FORBIDDING meaning: 1. unfriendly and likely to be unpleasant or harmful: 2. unfriendly and likely to be unpleasant or…. Learn more.
forbidding. Anything that's forbidding is a little menacing, daunting, or even frightening. It's hard enough starting at a new school, much less one in a huge, grim, forbidding building. Things that loom high above you, dark and cold, are often described with this adjective.
Forbidding means seeming unfriendly and frightening. Learn how to use this adjective with pictures, pronunciation and usage notes from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.