Forbidding
of Forbid
Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.
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Forbidding Quotations
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
Robert Baden-Powell
God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
Abraham Cahan
Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.
James Merrill
It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.
Frank Borman
Forbidding Translations
forbidding in Dutch is afschrikwekkend
forbidding in French is interdisant
forbidding in German is verbietend
forbidding in Latin is prohibitio
forbidding in Portuguese is proibir
forbidding in Spanish is prohibitivo
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