Dictionary entry

FORBIDDING

Webster's Dictionary 1828

FORBID'DING, participle present tense

1. Prohibiting; hindering.

2.adjective Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion or dislike; disagreeable; as a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.

FORBID'DING, noun Hindrance; opposition.