Main Entry:

forbidding

Function:

adjective

Date:

1599

1 : such as to make approach or passage difficult or impossible <forbidding walls> 2 : disagreeable, repellent <a forbidding task> 3 : grim, menacing <a dark forbidding sky>

— for·bid·ding·ly \-ˈbi-diŋ-lē\ adverb