forbidding
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adjectiveDefinition of FORBIDDING
1
: such as to make approach or passage difficult or impossible <forbidding walls>
2
: disagreeable, repellent <a forbidding task>
See Examples of FORBIDDING
- a harsh and forbidding landscape
- <a dark, forbidding house, that is reputed to be haunted>
First Known Use of FORBIDDING
1599
Related to FORBIDDING
- Synonyms
- alarming, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearsome, fearful, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, hair-raising, horrendous, horrible, horrifying, intimidating, redoubtable, scary, shocking, spine-chilling, terrible, terrifying
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