Synonym: baleful, ban, banning, dour, forbiddance, grim, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening. Similar words: forbid, morbidity, abiding, adding, wadding, wedding, shedding, prodding. Meaning: [fər'bɪdɪŋ /fə'-] 
n. an official prohibition or edict against something. adj. 1. harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance 2. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments.
n. an official prohibition or edict against something. adj. 1. harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance 2. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments. 91 Fox River Penitentiary is an old prison. Guard towers and forbidding razor wire line the perimeter.
More similar words: forbid, morbidity, abiding, adding, wadding, wedding, shedding, prodding, plodding, orbit, exorbitant, exorbitantly, add in, be absorbed in, harbinger, disturbing, dingy, ceding, lading, fading, ending, holding, dining, landing, hiding, evading, funding, pending, leading, reading.