forbidding
Americanadjective
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grim; unfriendly; hostile; sinister.
his forbidding countenance.
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dangerous; threatening.
forbidding clouds; forbidding cliffs.
adjective
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hostile or unfriendly
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dangerous or ominous
Other Word Forms
- forbiddingly adverb
- forbiddingness noun
- unforbidding adjective
Etymology
Origin of forbidding
Example Sentences
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A government notice said junta chief Min Aung Hlaing ordered releases of more than 7,300 prisoners convicted under legislation forbidding "financing of terrorism" and harbouring or arranging transport for "any terrorist group".
From Barron's
The sale comes after the French government took a step to distance itself from U.S. tech companies: forbidding government agencies from using U.S. videoconferencing services such as Zoom or Microsoft’s Teams.
The closer they got, the more wild and forbidding the mountain looked.
From Literature
Mr. Kempt, who worked as a criminal lawyer in the Arctic for almost two decades, conjures this forbidding landscape and its residents with artful authority.
Creators can also set their own personal boundaries—such as forbidding questions about their personal lives.
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