forbidding
pronunciation
How to pronounce forbidding in British English:
UK [fəˈbɪdɪŋ]
How to pronounce forbidding in American English:
US [fərˈbɪdɪŋ]
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- Noun:
- an official prohibition or edict against something
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- Adjective:
- harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
- threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
Word Origin
- forbidding (adj.)
- 1570s, "that forbids;" 1712 as "uninviting," present participle adjective from forbid. Related: Forbiddingly; forbiddingness.
Example
- 1. Judge kaplan issued a temporary order in february forbidding enforcement of the ecuadorean verdict .
- 2. Potentially the most significant announcement this week is that ministers are considering explicitly forbidding government departments from discriminating on grounds of social class .
- 3. To create instruments that will travel hundreds of millions of miles through space , hand voyages to the most forbidding environments on earth .
- 4. Mr obama is inexperienced , and right now the world looks especially forbidding .
- 5. The southbank centre , a forbidding post-war concrete complex formerly visited only by serious culture consumers , has been transformed .