forbidden
adjUK /fəˈbɪdən/ · US /fɚˈbɪdən/
Etymology Past participle of the verb forbid. Doublet of verboten. Compare German verboten, Dutch verboden, Swedish förbjuden, and West Frisian ferbean.
1
Not allowed; specifically disallowed.
- Maſters commands come with a power reſiſtleſs / To ſuch as owe them abſolute ſubjection; / And for a life who will not change his purpoſe? / (So mutable are all the ways of men) / Yet this be ſure, in nothing to comply / Scandalous or forbidden in our Law.1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 83, lines 415–420:
- This kind of immediate control structure we take to be characteristic of the tribe, and it leads to a rather rigid type of system in which 'every action not mandatory is forbidden'.1999, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind, page 276:
- Synonyms
- banned, disallowed, forbidden, impermissible, illegal, illicit, interdicted, nonallowed, nonlicet, prohibited, proscribed, proscript, unallowed, unpermitted, verboten
- Antonyms
- allowed, authorized, lawful, permitted, unforbidden
- Derived terms
- Forbidden City, forbidden degree, forbidden experiment, forbidden fruit, forbidden fruit is the sweetest, forbiddenly, forbiddenness, forbidden pants, forbidden planet, forbidden rice, forbidden snack, nonforbidden, semiforbidden, unforbidden
- Related terms
- taboo, banished, ineligible, unlawful