Difference between Forbidding and Menacing

What is the difference between Forbidding and Menacing?

Forbidding as an adjective is highly unpleasant or disagreeable while Menacing as an adjective is suggesting imminent harm.

Forbidding

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: highly unpleasant or disagreeable threatening or menacing

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To disallow; to proscribe.

Menacing

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make threats against (someone); to intimidate.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Suggesting imminent harm.Threatening.

Example sentence: The stupidest question I get is 'Is Goldberg your real name?' I tell people, 'No, my real name is Killer, but I wanted a much more menacing name, so I picked Goldberg.'

We hope you now know whether to use Forbidding or Menacing in your sentence.

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