looking dangerous, threatening, or disagreeable; repellent
forbidding
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forbidding
adjective
- Tending or threatening to impede progress: forbidding rapids.
- Unpleasant; disagreeable: a forbidding scowl.
- Having a menacing aspect: forbidding thunderclouds.
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- for·bid′ding·ly
adverb
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Adjective
(comparative more forbidding, superlative most forbidding)
- highly unpleasant or disagreeable
- threatening or menacing
Verb
- Present participle of forbid.
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