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unforbidding

unforbidding adjective: not forbidding.

Adjective

unforbidding (comparative more unforbidding, superlative most unforbidding)

  1. Not forbidding.
    • It has, of late more particularly, assumed not only an unforbidding, but even an engaging form, by the facility with which many of its most important researches are now conducted, and by the extension of them to numerous objects which had not before been attended to by the old spagyrists.1780, Francis de Wasserberg, “Chemical Institutions for the Use of Students”, in The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, volume 63, page 502

Forms of unforbidding

comparativemore unforbidding
superlativemost unforbidding

Origin of unforbidding

From un- + forbidding. Attested since the 18th century.

Questions about unforbidding

What does unforbidding mean?
Unforbidding means not forbidding.
What part of speech is unforbidding?
Unforbidding is an adjective.

Words near unforbidding in the dictionary

  1. unforbearance
  2. unforbearing
  3. unforbid
  4. unforbidden
  5. unforbiddenly
  6. unforbidding
  7. unforce
  8. unforceable
  9. unforced
  10. unforced error
  11. unforced errors

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