Verboten

//ˌvəˈbəʊtn̩// adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    (Strictly) forbidden or prohibited. emphatic, humorous, not-comparable, often

    "Before that, students and professors could date whomever we wanted; the next day we were off-limits to one another—verboten, traife, dangerous (and perhaps, therefore, all the more alluring)."

Adjective
  1. 1
    excluded from use or mention wordnet

Synonyms

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forbiddenoff limitsallowedbannedbannedbarred

Example

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"Before that, students and professors could date whomever we wanted; the next day we were off-limits to one another—verboten, traife, dangerous (and perhaps, therefore, all the more alluring)."

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German verboten (“banned, forbidden, prohibited”). Doublet of forbidden.

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