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"a forbidding scowl"adjectiveharshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
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nounan official prohibition or edict against something
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"forbidding thunderclouds"adjectivethreatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
Definition that contains forbidding
- stay a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted
- stern of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect
- prohibition the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
- prohibition a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
- crusty brusque and surly and forbidding
- gruff brusque and surly and forbidding
- austere of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect
- inhibition the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
- sternness the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding
- curmudgeonly brusque and surly and forbidding