adj.
Function: adjective
Date: 1599
1 : such as to make approach or passage difficult or impossible < forbidding walls>
2 : DISAGREEABLE , REPELLENT <a forbidding task>
3 : GRIM , MENACING <a dark forbidding sky>
– for · bid · ding · ly \ - ' bi-di ŋ -l ē \ adverb