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- a dark, forbidding house, that is reputed to be haunted
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- told us in a forbidding voice to stop calling him by that name
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- fixed,
- hard,
- hardened,
- hardheaded,
- immovable,
- implacable,
- inflexible,
- ironhanded,
- mulish,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- rigid,
- self-willed,
- set,
- stiff,
- stubborn,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding,
- willful
- (or wilful)
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forbidding
nounSynonyms & Antonyms of forbidding (Entry 2 of 3)
- the landlord's forbidding of loud music after 10:00 p.m.
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forbidding
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of forbidding (Entry 3 of 3)
- smoking is forbidden throughout the building
- we forbid you to see him
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“Forbidding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forbidding. Accessed 16 Aug. 2022.
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The first known use of forbidding was in 1599
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