adjective. Tending or threatening to impede progress.

adjective. Unpleasant; disagreeable.

adjective. Having a menacing aspect.

Repelling approach; repellent; repulsive; raising aversion or dislike; disagreeable: as, a forbidding aspect; forbidding weather; forbidding manners.

Synonyms Unpleasant, displeasing, offensive, odious, abhorrent, repellent.

adjective. Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting

adjective. highly unpleasant or disagreeable

adjective. threatening or menacing

verb. Present participle of forbid.

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

"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."

repellent  

alarming  unpleasant  

bidding  kidding  ridding  skidding  

Olympian  abhorrent  abhorrent  abominable  aloof  

forbid