For‐bid″ding (?), a. Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.
Syn. — Disagreeable; unpleasant; displeasing; offensive; repulsive; odious; abhorrent.
— For‐bid″ding‐ly, adv. — For‐bid″ding‐ness, n.