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Inhibitive vs Forbidding - What's the difference?

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Inhibitive is a related term of forbidding.


As adjectives the difference between inhibitive and forbidding

is that inhibitive is that inhibits 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.

inhibitive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • that inhibits

    • Synonyms

    * inhibitory

    Antonyms

    * noninhibitive

    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.