-diŋ, -dēŋ adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from present participle of forbidden
1. : such as to make approach or passage difficult or impossible
forbidding mountains
forbidding walls
forbidding terminology
2. : disagreeable , repellent
desolate forbidding countryside
dark forbidding ravines
3. : menacing , grim
forbidding array of guns
• for·bid·ding·ly adverb
• for·bid·ding·ness noun -es