Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments.
Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance.
An official prohibition or edict against something.
1 Russia responded with its own law forbidding Americans from adopting Russian children.
2 There were rules forbidding group meetings of more than a certain number.
3 Burning in the right way There's something immediately forbidding about debal curry.
4 Fish rippled the water, but Braan insisted on maximum stealth, forbidding fishing.
5 The temperature was deadly cold; the dull houses were rime-covered and forbidding .
6 This was done in but few instances, the general destitution forbidding it.
7 The fields are desolate and forbidding , far from the villages social framework.
8 The flower of the forbidding plant was the splendor of the forest.
9 There was something biting and forbidding in the character of Kate Swift.
10 There were no lights near them; the shadows were black and forbidding .
11 The house they stopped in front of was rather dingy and forbidding .
12 They landed; but the fearful, and ungrateful slaves continued sullen and forbidding .
13 In the fading light the straggling wood wore a dreary, forbidding look.
14 Hands on hips, she stepped closer to him, however forbidding he looked.
15 Now, though the Colony retains a forbidding edge, those days are gone.
16 The four walls of the room were grim and forbidding of aspect.
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