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forbidding

English

  1. 🔊 threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
    “a baleful look”
  2. 🔊 harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
    “a dour, self-sacrificing life”
  3. 🔊 an official prohibition or edict against something

Similar words

ban banning forbiddance baleful menacing minacious minatory ominous sinister threatening dour grim olympian abhorrent abominable aloof awful backward bad base bashful beastly below contempt beneath contempt