Verboten
/ˌvəˈbəʊtn̩/ adj
adj ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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 excluded from use or mention wordnet
Example
More examples"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.