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  2. unfriendly and likely to be unpleasant or harmful: a forbidding row of security guards. With storm clouds rushing over them, the mountains looked dark and forbidding. Synonym. menacing. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Not being friendly. abrasively. abrasiveness. abruptly. abruptness. aloof. estrangement from someone. flintily.

  3. If you describe a person, place, or thing as forbidding, you mean they have a severe, unfriendly, or threatening appearance.

  4. Forbidding definition: grim; unfriendly; hostile; sinister. See examples of FORBIDDING used in a sentence.

  5. The meaning of FORBIDDING is such as to make approach or passage difficult or impossible. How to use forbidding in a sentence.

  6. forbidding. Anything that's forbidding is a little menacing, daunting, or even frightening. It's hard enough starting at a new school, much less one in a huge, grim, forbidding building. Things that loom high above you, dark and cold, are often described with this adjective.

  7. 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. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.

  8. unfriendly and likely to be unpleasant or harmful: a forbidding row of security guards. With storm clouds rushing over them, the mountains looked dark and forbidding. Synonym. menacing. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Not being friendly.

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