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Forbidden   /fˈɔrbɪdən/  /fərrbˈɪdən/   Listen
Forbidden

adjective
1.
Excluded from use or mention.  Synonyms: out, prohibited, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verboten.  "In our house dancing and playing cards were out" , "A taboo subject"



Forbid

verb
(past forbade; past part. forbidden, obs. forbid; pres. part. forbidding)
1.
Command against.  Synonyms: disallow, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto.  "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store" , "Dad nixed our plans"
2.
Keep from happening or arising; make impossible.  Synonyms: foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent.  "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project"



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"Forbidden" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Then just press the button and the waiter will bring us the bill of fare. I understand that candidates are allowed to have their meals served in rooms. Although I believe it's forbidden for any candidate, or cadet, either, to ...
— Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point • H. Irving Hancock

... compensation in the apple-trees in the neighbouring pastures. The apple has from all time been the urchin's delight, above all when plucked from a tree which does not belong to him. Our pockets were soon crammed with the forbidden fruit. ...
— The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles • Jean Henri Fabre

... sinner be a professor of the Religion of Mazda, or one who has been taught in it. But if he be not a professor of the Religion of Mazda, nor one who has been taught in it, then his sin is taken from him, if he makes confession of the Religion of Mazda and resolves never to commit again such forbidden deeds. ...
— Sacred Books of the East • Various

... is forbidden to attack or to bombard by any means whatever (par quelque moyen que ce soit) towns, villages, habitations, or buildings which are ...
— Letters To "The Times" Upon War And Neutrality (1881-1920) • Thomas Erskine Holland

... our laws and the founders of our government have accepted the moral code of the Bible as the basis of our jurisprudence, and have forbidden the union of church and state, and have left every citizen free to "worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience," so long as he does not interfere with the rights of others or violate the moral code common to all citizens, for the law cannot allow a person ...
— Thirty Years In Hell - Or, From Darkness to Light • Bernard Fresenborg


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