adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The mountains looked more forbidding as we got closer.
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The school was a large, rather forbidding building.
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The wood-panelled den looked dark and forbidding .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At first when you enter, the church seems forbidding and rather a muddle.
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The main tower of the fortress is nine storeys high and even today looks forbidding .
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The trees seemed taller and closer together; the spaces between them darker and more forbidding .
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To their left was the long forbidding wood with its tangle of trees and stubborn defenders.
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Uncle Fred was an austere and impressive figure, whom some people found forbidding .