verboten

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   excluded from use or mention

   Certain words are verboten in class.

2. 2
   adj

   (Strictly) forbidden or prohibited.

   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).

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

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