2020-10-01 คำชวนสับสน ชุด F - forbidding & foreboding & formidable

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151210-1 คำชวนสับสน ชุด F - forbidding & foreboding & formidable

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Dictionary.com

ออกเสียง “Forbidding” = ‘fawr-BID-ing’

ออกเสียง “Foreboding” = ‘fawr-BOH-ding’

ออกเสียง “Formidable” = ‘FAWR-mi-duh-buhl’ / ‘fawr-MID-uh-buhl’

Abused, Confused, & Misused Words

forbidding

prohibiting: They are forbidding entry.

Not to be confused with:

foreboding – a prediction; a portent of future misfortune; presentiment: She had a foreboding that there would be an accident.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language

for′mi·da·bil′i·ty, for′mi·da·ble·ness n.

for′mi·da·bly adv.

Usage Note:

Traditionally formidable has been pronounced with stress on the first syllable, but recently the pronunciation with stress on the second syllable, which is a common variant in British English, has seen increasing use in American English.

However, the traditional pronunciation is still preferred by a large majority of the Usage Panel. In our 2008 survey, 73 percent favored the pronunciation with stress on the firstsyllable, and 27 percent favored the other pronunciation. Bothpronunciations are acceptable, however.

Common Errors in English Usage Dictionary

“Foreboding” means “ominous,” as in “The sky was a foreboding shade of gray” (i.e. predictive of a storm).

The prefix “fore-” with an E, often indicates futurity, e. g. “forecast,” “foreshadowing” and “foreword” (a prefatory bit of writing at the beginning of a book, often misspelled “forword”).

A forbiddingperson or task is hostile or dangerous: “The trek across the desert to the nearest latte stand was forbidding.” The two are easily confusedbecause some things, like storms, can be both foreboding and forbidding.

“Formidable,” which originally meant “fear-inducing” (“Mike Tyson is a formidable opponent”) has come to be used primarily as a compliment meaning “awe-inducing” (“Gary Kasparov’s formidable skills as a chess player were of no avail against Deep Blue”).