Jump to content

unforbidding

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

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

Adjective

[edit]

unforbidding (comparative more unforbidding, superlative most unforbidding)

  1. Not forbidding.
    • 1780, Francis de Wasserberg, “Chemical Institutions for the Use of Students”, in The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, volume 63, page 502:
      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.