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Definition of Forbidding

Forbidding

  1. of Forbid
  2. Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.

Forbidding Quotations

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
Robert Baden-Powell

A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.
Dan Stevens

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
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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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