forbidding (adj.) Copy link • forbidding (adj.): perh. tētrĭcus (sour and morose): cf. Ov. A. A. 1, 721, t. puella; and Mart. 4, 73, 6, t. deae (i. e., the fates): or insuāvis, ŏdiōsus: v. unpleasant, disagreeable.