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Restrictive vs Forbidding - What's the difference?

restrictive | forbidding | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between restrictive and forbidding

is that restrictive is confining, limiting, containing with in defined bounds while forbidding is highly unpleasant or disagreeable.

As a verb forbidding is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun forbidding is

the act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.

restrictive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • confining, limiting, containing with in defined bounds.

    • 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.