verboten

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verboten

/ˌvəˈbəʊtn̩/ UK
/fə-/ UK
/ˌfəɹˈboʊt(ə)n/ US
/ˌvəɹ-/ US
[-ɾ(ə)n] US

Rhymes with -əʊtən

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

adjective

emphatic, humorous, not comparable, often (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).
Similar: banned, disallowed, proscribed, forbidden, impermissible, illegal, illicit, interdicted, nonallowed, nonlicet, prohibited, proscript

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@misc{verboten_2026,
  title = {verboten},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/verboten},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}