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Forbidding   /fərbˈɪdɪŋ/  /fɔbˈɪdɪŋ/   Listen
Forbidding

adjective
1.
Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance.  Synonyms: dour, grim.  "A forbidding scowl" , "A grim man loving duty more than humanity" , "Undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"
2.
Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments.  Synonyms: baleful, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening.  "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"
noun
1.
An official prohibition or edict against something.  Synonyms: ban, banning, forbiddance.



Forbid

verb
(past forbade; past part. forbidden, obs. forbid; pres. part. forbidding)
1.
Command against.  Synonyms: disallow, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto.  "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store" , "Dad nixed our plans"
2.
Keep from happening or arising; make impossible.  Synonyms: foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent.  "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project"



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"Forbidding" Quotes from Famous Books



... truly cheerless and forbidding than the appearance of the ruined pile; and the hoarse and dismal rush of the river below, heard the more readily by reason of a deep rocky fissure, or ravine, running from the rear yard to the water's edge, through which ...
— Nick of the Woods • Robert M. Bird

... friend Sandys' country place near Cleveland, forbidding Woodruff or Burbank or my secretaries to communicate with me. Sandys had no interest in politics—his fortune was in real estate and, therefore, did not tempt or force him into ...
— The Plum Tree • David Graham Phillips

... openly to many of his neighbors in the day that followed; and though no serious charge was ever preferred against the lad, it got bruited about that Nello had been seen in the mill-yard after dark on some unspoken errand, and that he bore Baas Cogez a grudge for forbidding his intercourse with little Alois; and so the hamlet, which followed the sayings of its richest landowner servilely, and whose families all hoped to secure the riches of Alois in some future time for ...
— Stories of Childhood • Various

... in an uproar by reason of that blow, and many swords were drawn, and on one side the cry was Cabra and Granon, and on the other side it was Valencia and Bivar; but the strife was in such sort that the Counts in short time voided the Palace, King Don Alfonso meantime cried out aloud, forbidding them to fight before him, and charging them to look to his honour; and the Cid then strove what he could to quiet his people, saying to the King. Sir, you saw that I could bear it no longer, being thus maltreated in your presence; if it ...
— Chronicle Of The Cid • Various

... bastard, or an interloper, in the world which exists for him. But the man in the street, finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force which built a tower or sculptured a marble god, feels poor when he looks on these. To him a palace, a statue, a costly book, have an alien and forbidding air, much like a gay equipage, and seem to say like that, "Who are you, Sir?" Yet they all are his, suitors for his notice, petitioners to his faculties that they will come out and take possession. ...
— Essays • Ralph Waldo Emerson


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