forbidding
Meaning of forbidding
- To disallow; to proscribe.
Smoking in the restaurant is forbidden.
- (ditransitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
- To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
An impassable river forbids the approach of the army.
- To accurse; to blast.
- To defy; to challenge.
What part of "no" do you forbid to understand?
noun
The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.
adjective
Appearing to be threatening, unfriendly or potentially unpleasant.
Information about forbidding
- The plural form of forbidding is: forbiddings.
- Languages in which forbidding is used:
(Press the button to hear it)
Hyphenation of forbidding
for-bid-ding
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- forbidding is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
forbidding synonyms
Meaning dour:
Meaning baleful:
baleful, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening
Meaning ban:
Meaning :
forbidding antonyms
Meaning :
approachable, inviting, welcoming
Words that rhyme with forbidding
ding, Reading, Rollerblading, abrading, accolading, adreading, aggrading, ambuscading, antispreading, arcading, areading, autoloading, backloading, ballading, balustrading, bandspreading, barricading, bastinading, beading, beheading, bejading, bespreading, besteading, betreading, billheading, biodegrading, blading, blockading, boatloading, boltheading, breading, breechloading, brigading, brocading, bulkheading, cannonading, carloading, cascading, cavalcading, cheerleading, cleading, coheading, coleading, copyreading, corrading, counterblockading, counterpleading, countershading, crossheading, crossroading