different between forbidding vs inadmissible

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /f??b?d??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f??b?d??/
• Rhymes: -?d??
• Hyphenation: for?bid?ding

Adjective

forbidding (comparative more forbidding, superlative most forbidding)

1. Appearing to be threatening, unfriendly or potentially unpleasant.
   • 1726, Alexander Pope (translator), The Odyssey of Homer, London, 1760, Volume 3, Book 15, lines 57-58, p. 100,^[1]

     What cause, cry’d he, can justify our flight,

     To tempt the dangers of forbidding night?

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, London: T. Egerton, Volume I, Chapter 3,^[2]

     […] he was discovered to be proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend.

   • 1922, Emily Post, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home, New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1923, Chapter 28, p. 498,^[3]

     The writer of the “blank” letter begins fluently with the date and “Dear Mary,” and then sits and chews his penholder or makes little dots and squares and circles on the blotter—utterly unable to attack the cold, forbidding blankness of that first page.

   • 1988, “If You Can’t Fight City Hall, Here’s a Different Idea: Sell It,” The New York Times, 10 January, 1988,^[4]

     Its forbidding brick and concrete exterior looms over a vast, windswept brick plaza in a style architectural critics, not without admiration, call “The New Brutalism.”

Antonyms

• approachable
• inviting
• welcoming

Translations

Verb

forbidding

1. present participle of forbid

Noun

forbidding (plural forbiddings)

1. The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece,^[5]

     But all these poor forbiddings could not stay him;

   • 1920, St. John G. Ervine, The Foolish Lovers, London: W. Collins & Sons, Chapter 3, VIII, p. 228,^[6]

     All law was composed of hindrances and obstacles and forbiddings, and therefore he was entirely opposed to Law.

English

Etymology

From French inadmissible, from Middle French inadmissible

Adjective

inadmissible (comparative more inadmissible, superlative most inadmissible)

1. Not admissible, especially that cannot be admitted as evidence at a trial

Synonyms

• unadmissible, unadmittable

Antonyms

• admissible

Related terms

• inadmissibility

Translations

Noun

inadmissible (plural inadmissibles)

1. A person who is not to be admitted (to a country, a group, etc).
   • 2018, Southwest Border Migration FY2018 United States Customs and Border Patrol:

     June saw a decline in Southwest Border apprehensions and inadmissibles by 18 percent compared to May. This decline follows the overall downward trend for this time of year as apprehensions and inadmissibles along the Southwest Border have declined from May to June.

Catalan

Etymology

From in- +? admissible.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /i.n?d.mi?si.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /i.nad.mi?si.ble/

Adjective

inadmissible (masculine and feminine plural inadmissibles)

1. inadmissible

Antonyms

• admissible

Derived terms

• inadmissibilitat

French

Etymology

in- +? admissible

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.nad.mi.sibl/

Adjective

inadmissible (plural inadmissibles)

1. inadmissible

   Synonym: inacceptable

Antonyms

• admissible

Further reading

• “inadmissible” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).