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forbidding

DEFINITIONS OF: forbidding

1

n an official prohibition or edict against something

Synonyms:
ban, banning, forbiddance
Types:
test ban
a ban on the testing of nuclear weapons that is mutually agreed to by countries that possess nuclear weapons
Type of:
prohibition
refusal to approve or assent to

adj threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

“forbidding thunderclouds”
Synonyms:
baleful, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening
alarming
frightening because of an awareness of danger

adj harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance

“a forbidding scowl”
Synonyms:
dour, grim
unpleasant
disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings
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