forbidding

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forbidding

prohibiting: They are forbidding entry.

Not to be confused with:

foreboding – a prediction; a portent of future misfortune; presentiment: She had a foreboding that there would be an accident.

for·bid·ding

(fər-bĭd′ĭng, fôr-)

adj.

1. Tending or threatening to impede progress: forbidding rapids.

2. Unpleasant; disagreeable: a forbidding scowl.

3. Having a menacing aspect: forbidding thunderclouds.

for·bid′ding·ly adv.

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forbidding

(fəˈbɪdɪŋ)

adj

1. hostile or unfriendly

2. dangerous or ominous

forˈbiddingly adv

forˈbiddingness n

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for•bid•ding

(fərˈbɪd ɪŋ, fɔr-)

adj.

1. grim; threatening: a forbidding scowl.

2. dauntingly steep: forbidding cliffs.

3. disagreeably difficult or challenging: a forbidding duty.

[1710–15]

for•bid′ding•ly, adv.

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Noun	1.	forbidding - an official prohibition or edict against something banning, forbiddance, ban prohibition - refusal to approve or assent to test ban - a ban on the testing of nuclear weapons that is mutually agreed to by countries that possess nuclear weapons
Adj.	1.	forbidding - harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie dour, grim unpleasant - disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings ; "an unpleasant personality"; "unpleasant repercussions"; "unpleasant odors"
	2.	forbidding - threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly" menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening, baleful alarming - frightening because of an awareness of danger

forbidding

adjective threatening, severe, frightening, hostile, grim, menacing, sinister, daunting, ominous, unfriendly, foreboding, baleful, bodeful There was something severe and forbidding about her face.
winning, welcoming, inviting, attractive, tempting, magnetic, enticing, beguiling, alluring

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forbidding

adjective

So disagreeable as to discourage approach:

inhospitable, unhospitable, uninviting.

Translations

بَغيض، مُنَفِّر، كَريه

odpuzující

ógnvekjandi

forbidding

[fəˈbɪdɪŋ] ADJ [person, manner] → severo, intimidante; [place, building, room] → imponente, intimidante; [landscape] → inhóspito; [task] → ingente, arduo

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

forbidding

[fə^rˈbɪdɪŋ] adj

(= grim) [building, appearance] → austère

(= severe) [person] → dur(e), strict(e)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

forbidding

adj person, expression → Furcht einflößend; place, terrain → unwirtlich; building, rocks, cliffs → bedrohlich; task (= uninviting) → wenig einladend; (= overwhelming) → überwältigend; prospect → düster; the room was cold and forbidding → das Zimmer war kalt und unfreundlich

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

forbidding

[fəˈbɪdɪŋ] adj → arcigno/a, d'aspetto minaccioso

forbid

(fəˈbid) – past tense forbade (fəˈbad foː(r)ˈbeid) : past participle forˈbidden – verb

to tell (someone) not to do something. She forbade him to go.

forˈbidden adjective

not allowed. Smoking is forbidden.

forˈbidding adjective

rather frightening. a forbidding appearance.

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Doubtless it is fancy, but it seems to me now that the remaining distance was made in a chill fog; that I was uncomfortably cold; that the way was longer than ever before, and the town, when we reached it, cheerless, forbidding, and desolate.

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He remembered the strong phrases in Christine's letter, forbidding him to make any attempt to see her.

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Great are thy Vertues, doubtless, best of Fruits, Though kept from Man, & worthy to be admir'd, Whose taste, too long forborn, at first assay Gave elocution to the mute, and taught The Tongue not made for Speech to speak thy praise: Thy praise hee also who forbids thy use, Conceales not from us, naming thee the Tree Of Knowledge, knowledge both of good and evil; Forbids us then to taste, but his forbidding Commends thee more, while it inferrs the good By thee communicated, and our want: For good unknown, sure is not had, or had And yet unknown, is as not had at all.

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Therefore I made another Law forbidding anyone from plucking a six-leaved clover or from gathering other plants and herbs which the Witches boil in their kettles to work magic with.

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In the morning the effects of it were still visible in the fearful, sidelong glances that the Waziri continually cast at the massive and forbidding structure which loomed above them.

Another narrow passage led through this wall, and at its end Tarzan and his warriors found themselves in a broad avenue, on the opposite side of which crumbling edifices of hewn granite loomed dark and forbidding. Upon the crumbling debris along the face of the buildings trees had grown, and vines wound in and out of the hollow, staring windows; but the building directly opposite them seemed less overgrown than the others, and in a much better state of preservation.

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Gujranwala -- A Younger brother has allegedly killed his elder brother on forbidding him from committing theft crime and burnt his dead body in furnace to cover up his crime.

Brother kills his brother in Gujranwala

Nigel Short, a British chess grandmaster, told BBC that forbidding chess in Saudi Arabia would be a "great tragedy....

Saudi mufti forbids chess

I was surprised at the number of people who texted or talked with me about my bawal column (Forbidden, 11/20/15), which analyzed the Filipino penchant for forbidding this and forbidding that, and which spills over into censorship.

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BEIRUT - The jihadist Islamic State has imposed a strict dress code for women in eastern Syria, forbidding them from showing any part of their bodies, a monitoring group said on Thursday."Women...