Definition of forbidding in English:

forbidding

adjective fəˈbɪdɪŋfərˈbɪdɪŋ

Unfriendly or threatening in appearance.
（外表）严峻的，令人生畏的
a grim and forbidding building
令人悚然止步的建筑。
Example sentencesExamples
- It was with not a little nostalgia that I responded to similar saliva-inducing twittering last week, emanating from inside the forbidding walls of the Smithsonian Institution.
- His first impression was the airport, which seemed a very forbidding, communist building.
- Scotland, despite that forbidding losing margin, did finally find the performance we had been waiting for all season and Ireland looked unlikely championship material as their visitors got stuck in with scant regard to reputation.
- The two brothers aren't larger than life myths sprung to life, but ordinary hunters attempting to provide for themselves and their families in a forbidding and hostile world.
- She found that she could not think straight, for her mind kept returning to the forbidding trees - unfriendly reminders of the peaceful days of her childhood.
- While the balmy lowlands along the southwest border seldom experienced any snow, the frigid peaks and plateaus to the northeast bore a forbidding climate all year round.
- Isolated and ruined, it sits on 1000 acres of windswept, forbidding land, and is the quintessential haunted house.
- The suppression of detail causes the stepped facade of the building to read like forbidding ridges or dangerous protective fins.
- In a country where female scientists remain constrained by a forbidding glass ceiling, the appointment of the neuroscientist is being hailed as a major breakthrough.
- Beam's overdubbed harmonies, delivered in a repetitive cadence, are spooky without being forbidding, bringing Low's early work to mind, if only in pace and tone.
- They will brave the most adverse conditions and penetrate the most forbidding terrain.
- He started Baptist church school at the age of eight, in a forbidding Victorian grey brick building.
- When our children bring home their textbooks from the new school with the forbidding heavy volumes of mathematics and physics, those books are simply the attempt of men to describe the world Christ made and sustains.
- She is an ex-con who served nine months in the forbidding maximum security prison in Lexington, Kentucky.
- Living in hotels, engaging in empty sexual encounters, silently and impassively taking in the world without responding very much to it, Anna is a mysterious and somewhat forbidding figure.
- Themes of kids at play and sinister, forbidding landscapes remain, processed through a computer and enhanced by found sounds and distorted, provocatively repetitive tone patterns.
- In any event, potential disruptions can be dealt with easily by having participants in the system hold sufficient capital to absorb losses or forbidding daylight overdrafts.
- Both the Utes and early Spanish explorers avoided the forbidding gorge; for many years it remained an impenetrable mystery.
- Seventy-five miles of this forbidding structure have already been built, with a total projected length of more than 200 miles.
- The site previously consisted of a number of unimaginative prison buildings, overlooked by the parapets of the Fort on the top of the hill, a forbidding looking building itself.
Synonyms
hostile, unwelcoming, unfriendly, unsympathetic, unapproachable, harsh, grim, stern, hard, tough, cool, cold, chilly, frosty
disagreeable, nasty, mean, abhorrent, repellent
informal off-putting
threatening, ominous, menacing, sinister, brooding, daunting, fearsome, frightening, chilling, disturbing, disquieting
hostile, unwelcoming, uninviting, unfriendly, mean-looking
foreboding, unpromising, inauspicious, evil-looking, suggestive of evil
informal spooky, scary, creepy
archaic direful, bodeful

Derivatives

forbiddingly

adverbfəˈbɪdɪŋlifərˈbɪdɪŋli

The main conclusions extend over barely 6 pages of her 37 page essay, but to deal with them here would, I fear, make what I feel is already a forbiddingly long post impossible.
Example sentencesExamples
- But if the text at times becomes rebarbatively labyrinthine, the main lines of the argument, while forbiddingly dense, are relatively clear.
- Not only too tall, they also cut off other lower Manhattan neighborhoods from one another with their barrier-like raised plaza, forbiddingly deserted at night and on weekends.
- It is played out with unimpeachable integrity and care, but a sudden switchback in the narrative turns everything forbiddingly and even frustratingly dark and means that much of the movie's inner emotional life is amputated.
- Not that he seems to have much time for books, surfing or other diversions: ‘What is permissible and forbidden is clarified here,’ he declares rather forbiddingly.

Rhymes

Ridding

Definition of forbidding in US English:

forbidding

adjectivefərˈbidiNGfərˈbɪdɪŋ

Unfriendly or threatening in appearance.
（外表）严峻的，令人生畏的
a grim and forbidding building
令人悚然止步的建筑。
Example sentencesExamples
- It was with not a little nostalgia that I responded to similar saliva-inducing twittering last week, emanating from inside the forbidding walls of the Smithsonian Institution.
- The site previously consisted of a number of unimaginative prison buildings, overlooked by the parapets of the Fort on the top of the hill, a forbidding looking building itself.
- Isolated and ruined, it sits on 1000 acres of windswept, forbidding land, and is the quintessential haunted house.
- In a country where female scientists remain constrained by a forbidding glass ceiling, the appointment of the neuroscientist is being hailed as a major breakthrough.
- Themes of kids at play and sinister, forbidding landscapes remain, processed through a computer and enhanced by found sounds and distorted, provocatively repetitive tone patterns.
- The two brothers aren't larger than life myths sprung to life, but ordinary hunters attempting to provide for themselves and their families in a forbidding and hostile world.
- Beam's overdubbed harmonies, delivered in a repetitive cadence, are spooky without being forbidding, bringing Low's early work to mind, if only in pace and tone.
- Living in hotels, engaging in empty sexual encounters, silently and impassively taking in the world without responding very much to it, Anna is a mysterious and somewhat forbidding figure.
- Seventy-five miles of this forbidding structure have already been built, with a total projected length of more than 200 miles.
- Both the Utes and early Spanish explorers avoided the forbidding gorge; for many years it remained an impenetrable mystery.
- In any event, potential disruptions can be dealt with easily by having participants in the system hold sufficient capital to absorb losses or forbidding daylight overdrafts.
- They will brave the most adverse conditions and penetrate the most forbidding terrain.
- His first impression was the airport, which seemed a very forbidding, communist building.
- She is an ex-con who served nine months in the forbidding maximum security prison in Lexington, Kentucky.
- While the balmy lowlands along the southwest border seldom experienced any snow, the frigid peaks and plateaus to the northeast bore a forbidding climate all year round.
- Scotland, despite that forbidding losing margin, did finally find the performance we had been waiting for all season and Ireland looked unlikely championship material as their visitors got stuck in with scant regard to reputation.
- She found that she could not think straight, for her mind kept returning to the forbidding trees - unfriendly reminders of the peaceful days of her childhood.
- He started Baptist church school at the age of eight, in a forbidding Victorian grey brick building.
- The suppression of detail causes the stepped facade of the building to read like forbidding ridges or dangerous protective fins.
- When our children bring home their textbooks from the new school with the forbidding heavy volumes of mathematics and physics, those books are simply the attempt of men to describe the world Christ made and sustains.
Synonyms
hostile, unwelcoming, unfriendly, unsympathetic, unapproachable, harsh, grim, stern, hard, tough, cool, cold, chilly, frosty
threatening, ominous, menacing, sinister, brooding, daunting, fearsome, frightening, chilling, disturbing, disquieting

词汇	forbidding
释义	Definition of forbidding in English: forbidding adjective fəˈbɪdɪŋfərˈbɪdɪŋ Unfriendly or threatening in appearance. （外表）严峻的，令人生畏的 a grim and forbidding building 令人悚然止步的建筑。 Example sentencesExamples It was with not a little nostalgia that I responded to similar saliva-inducing twittering last week, emanating from inside the forbidding walls of the Smithsonian Institution. His first impression was the airport, which seemed a very forbidding, communist building. Scotland, despite that forbidding losing margin, did finally find the performance we had been waiting for all season and Ireland looked unlikely championship material as their visitors got stuck in with scant regard to reputation. The two brothers aren't larger than life myths sprung to life, but ordinary hunters attempting to provide for themselves and their families in a forbidding and hostile world. She found that she could not think straight, for her mind kept returning to the forbidding trees - unfriendly reminders of the peaceful days of her childhood. While the balmy lowlands along the southwest border seldom experienced any snow, the frigid peaks and plateaus to the northeast bore a forbidding climate all year round. Isolated and ruined, it sits on 1000 acres of windswept, forbidding land, and is the quintessential haunted house. The suppression of detail causes the stepped facade of the building to read like forbidding ridges or dangerous protective fins. In a country where female scientists remain constrained by a forbidding glass ceiling, the appointment of the neuroscientist is being hailed as a major breakthrough. Beam's overdubbed harmonies, delivered in a repetitive cadence, are spooky without being forbidding, bringing Low's early work to mind, if only in pace and tone. They will brave the most adverse conditions and penetrate the most forbidding terrain. He started Baptist church school at the age of eight, in a forbidding Victorian grey brick building. When our children bring home their textbooks from the new school with the forbidding heavy volumes of mathematics and physics, those books are simply the attempt of men to describe the world Christ made and sustains. She is an ex-con who served nine months in the forbidding maximum security prison in Lexington, Kentucky. Living in hotels, engaging in empty sexual encounters, silently and impassively taking in the world without responding very much to it, Anna is a mysterious and somewhat forbidding figure. Themes of kids at play and sinister, forbidding landscapes remain, processed through a computer and enhanced by found sounds and distorted, provocatively repetitive tone patterns. In any event, potential disruptions can be dealt with easily by having participants in the system hold sufficient capital to absorb losses or forbidding daylight overdrafts. Both the Utes and early Spanish explorers avoided the forbidding gorge; for many years it remained an impenetrable mystery. Seventy-five miles of this forbidding structure have already been built, with a total projected length of more than 200 miles. The site previously consisted of a number of unimaginative prison buildings, overlooked by the parapets of the Fort on the top of the hill, a forbidding looking building itself. Synonyms hostile, unwelcoming, unfriendly, unsympathetic, unapproachable, harsh, grim, stern, hard, tough, cool, cold, chilly, frosty disagreeable, nasty, mean, abhorrent, repellent informal off-putting threatening, ominous, menacing, sinister, brooding, daunting, fearsome, frightening, chilling, disturbing, disquieting hostile, unwelcoming, uninviting, unfriendly, mean-looking foreboding, unpromising, inauspicious, evil-looking, suggestive of evil informal spooky, scary, creepy archaic direful, bodeful Derivatives forbiddingly adverbfəˈbɪdɪŋlifərˈbɪdɪŋli The main conclusions extend over barely 6 pages of her 37 page essay, but to deal with them here would, I fear, make what I feel is already a forbiddingly long post impossible. Example sentencesExamples But if the text at times becomes rebarbatively labyrinthine, the main lines of the argument, while forbiddingly dense, are relatively clear. Not only too tall, they also cut off other lower Manhattan neighborhoods from one another with their barrier-like raised plaza, forbiddingly deserted at night and on weekends. It is played out with unimpeachable integrity and care, but a sudden switchback in the narrative turns everything forbiddingly and even frustratingly dark and means that much of the movie's inner emotional life is amputated. Not that he seems to have much time for books, surfing or other diversions: ‘What is permissible and forbidden is clarified here,’ he declares rather forbiddingly. Rhymes Ridding Definition of forbidding in US English: forbidding adjectivefərˈbidiNGfərˈbɪdɪŋ Unfriendly or threatening in appearance. （外表）严峻的，令人生畏的 a grim and forbidding building 令人悚然止步的建筑。 Example sentencesExamples It was with not a little nostalgia that I responded to similar saliva-inducing twittering last week, emanating from inside the forbidding walls of the Smithsonian Institution. The site previously consisted of a number of unimaginative prison buildings, overlooked by the parapets of the Fort on the top of the hill, a forbidding looking building itself. Isolated and ruined, it sits on 1000 acres of windswept, forbidding land, and is the quintessential haunted house. In a country where female scientists remain constrained by a forbidding glass ceiling, the appointment of the neuroscientist is being hailed as a major breakthrough. Themes of kids at play and sinister, forbidding landscapes remain, processed through a computer and enhanced by found sounds and distorted, provocatively repetitive tone patterns. The two brothers aren't larger than life myths sprung to life, but ordinary hunters attempting to provide for themselves and their families in a forbidding and hostile world. Beam's overdubbed harmonies, delivered in a repetitive cadence, are spooky without being forbidding, bringing Low's early work to mind, if only in pace and tone. Living in hotels, engaging in empty sexual encounters, silently and impassively taking in the world without responding very much to it, Anna is a mysterious and somewhat forbidding figure. Seventy-five miles of this forbidding structure have already been built, with a total projected length of more than 200 miles. Both the Utes and early Spanish explorers avoided the forbidding gorge; for many years it remained an impenetrable mystery. In any event, potential disruptions can be dealt with easily by having participants in the system hold sufficient capital to absorb losses or forbidding daylight overdrafts. They will brave the most adverse conditions and penetrate the most forbidding terrain. His first impression was the airport, which seemed a very forbidding, communist building. She is an ex-con who served nine months in the forbidding maximum security prison in Lexington, Kentucky. While the balmy lowlands along the southwest border seldom experienced any snow, the frigid peaks and plateaus to the northeast bore a forbidding climate all year round. Scotland, despite that forbidding losing margin, did finally find the performance we had been waiting for all season and Ireland looked unlikely championship material as their visitors got stuck in with scant regard to reputation. She found that she could not think straight, for her mind kept returning to the forbidding trees - unfriendly reminders of the peaceful days of her childhood. He started Baptist church school at the age of eight, in a forbidding Victorian grey brick building. The suppression of detail causes the stepped facade of the building to read like forbidding ridges or dangerous protective fins. When our children bring home their textbooks from the new school with the forbidding heavy volumes of mathematics and physics, those books are simply the attempt of men to describe the world Christ made and sustains. Synonyms hostile, unwelcoming, unfriendly, unsympathetic, unapproachable, harsh, grim, stern, hard, tough, cool, cold, chilly, frosty threatening, ominous, menacing, sinister, brooding, daunting, fearsome, frightening, chilling, disturbing, disquieting
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