FORBIDDING


Meaning of FORBIDDING in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ fə(r)bɪdɪŋ ]

If you describe a person, place, or thing as forbidding , you mean they have a severe, unfriendly, or threatening appearance.

There was something a little severe and forbidding about her face.

...a huge, forbidding building.

ADJ

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