seeming unfriendly and frightening and likely to cause harm or danger:
a forbidding appearance / look / manner * The house looked dark and forbidding.
forbiddingly adverb:
a forbiddingly elegant restaurant
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for forbidding is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is forbidding a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, forbidding is tagged as adjective.
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