unforbidding

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"It has, of late more particularly, assumed not only an unforbidding, but even an engaging form, by the facility with which many of its most important researches are now conducted, and by the extension of them to numerous objects which had not before been attended to by the old spagyrists."

From un- + forbidding. Attested since the 18th century.

more unforbidding (comparative) most unforbidding (superlative)

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