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Angry vs Forbidding - What's the difference?

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Angry is a related term of forbidding.


As adjectives the difference between angry and forbidding

is that angry is displaying or feeling anger while forbidding is highly unpleasant or disagreeable.

As a verb forbidding is

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As a noun forbidding is

the act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.

angry

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Displaying or feeling anger.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.}}
  • (said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.
    • The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
  • Dark and stormy, menacing.
    • Angry clouds raced across the sky.
  • * {{quote-book, 1756, (Christopher Smart), 3= The Book of the Epodes, chapter=Ode II, by=(Horace)
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    Synonyms

    * (displaying anger) mad, enraged, wrathful, furious, apoplectic; irritated, annoyed, vexed, pissed off, cheesed off, worked up, psyched up * See also

    Derived terms

    * angrily * angriness * Angry Young Man

    See also

    * (Anger)

    Anagrams

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    forbidding

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • highly unpleasant or disagreeable
  • threatening or menacing

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.
  • * William Shakespeare
    • But all these poor forbiddings could not stay him.