forbidding
adj.adj. looking unfriendly, dangerous, or difficult to enter. You use this to describe places or people that make you feel a bit nervous or unwelcome.
adj. having a frightening or threatening appearance; appearing hostile or dangerous. Often used to describe landscapes, buildings, or facial expressions that discourage approach.
The high stone walls looked very forbidding.
The dark clouds and jagged rocks gave the island a forbidding appearance as the ship approached.
Despite the forbidding exterior of the old mansion, the interior had been renovated into a warm and welcoming family home.
By surface analysis, forbid + -ing.
Often used as an attributive adjective before a noun like 'landscape', 'expression', or 'walls'.
The forbidding of smoking is strict.The prohibition of smoking is strict.While 'forbid' is a verb, 'forbidding' is almost exclusively used as an adjective; the noun form for a ban is 'prohibition' or 'forbidding' is used only as a gerund.