Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tending or threatening to impede progress.
- adjective Unpleasant; disagreeable.
- adjective Having a menacing aspect.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Repelling approach; repellent; repulsive; raising aversion or dislike; disagreeable: as, a forbidding aspect; forbidding weather; forbidding manners.
- Synonyms Unpleasant, displeasing, offensive, odious, abhorrent, repellent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective highly
unpleasant ordisagreeable - adjective
threatening ormenacing - verb Present participle of
forbid .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
- adjective threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
- noun an official prohibition or edict against something
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Examples
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Given the fact that “wearing the colors” is considered to be deliberate disrespect by members of another gang, I think the school was justified in forbidding the wearing of the US flag, in this case.
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But my preferred way of thinking about such things would at least be open to the possibility that there might be a sufficiently compelling state interest in forbidding it.
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Given the fact that “wearing the colors” is considered to be deliberate disrespect by members of another gang, I think the school was justified in forbidding the wearing of the US flag, in this case.
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I think the school was justified in forbidding the wearing of the USflag ...
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A rock face, so forbidding from a distance, shows fracture lines from close up: nothing is forever, everything changes.
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Given the fact that “wearing the colors” is considered to be deliberate disrespect by members of another gang, I think the school was justified in forbidding the wearing of the US flag, in this case.
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As a critique of U. S.-funded programs, however, it is narrowly focused, citing only two such initiatives as examples, and these in forbidding Kandahar and Helmand, home to the bulk of the insurgency.
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As a critique of U. S.-funded programs, however, it is narrowly focused, citing only two such initiatives as examples, and these in forbidding Kandahar and Helmand, home to the bulk of the insurgency.
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Finally, I call forbidding wounded patients in that hospital from speaking out not only unpatriotic but also unconstitutional -- and how about inhumane?
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Conservative Jews have no interest in forbidding other people from mixing meat and dairy.
"opinion pieces without any opinion " Laban 2006
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