FORBIDDEN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does forbidden mean? 

• FORBIDDEN (adjective)
  The adjective FORBIDDEN has 1 sense:

1. excluded from use or mention

  Familiarity information: FORBIDDEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORBIDDEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Excluded from use or mention

Synonyms:

forbidden; out; prohibited; proscribed; taboo; tabu; verboten

Context example:

a taboo subject

Similar:

impermissible (not permitted)

 Context examples 

Some of the people threw up stones, hoping to drive the monkey down; but this was strictly forbidden, or else, very probably, my brains had been dashed out.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

At any rate, invited to dinner he was by Mr. Morse—Ruth's father, who had forbidden him the house and broken off the engagement.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

None of that, it is forbidden.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“No,” said the boy, “I will not do that; the king has forbidden it,” and ran away.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

In the course of this morning's reflections, she came to a resolution of making her next attempt on the forbidden door alone.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

You are forbidden to write—to hold a pen; yet one word from you, dear Victor, is necessary to calm our apprehensions.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Why did such an idea occur to her even enough to be reprobated and forbidden?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Sale is forbidden in the United States by Federal statute.

(Diacetylmorphine, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

My aunt, I may observe, allowed my horse on the forbidden ground, but had not at all relented towards the donkeys.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At any rate, it was there, and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the forbidden door.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)