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  1. Aug 14, 2015 · 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.

  2. forbidding. (fəʳbɪdɪŋ ) adjective. If you describe a person, place, or thing as forbidding, you mean they have a severe, unfriendly, or threatening appearance. There was something a little severe and forbidding about her face. ...a huge, forbidding building.

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

  4. 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.

  5. adjective. hostile or unfriendly. dangerous or ominous. “Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012. Discover More.

  6. Definition of forbidding adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

  7. 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.

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