forbidden
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Past participle of the verb forbid.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /fɚˈbɪdn̩/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fəˈbɪdn̩/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪdən
Adjective[edit]
forbidden (comparative more forbidden, superlative most forbidden)
- Not allowed; specifically disallowed.
- Synonyms: prohibited, verboten, proscribed
- 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 83, lines 415–420:
- 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.
- 1999, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind, page 276:
- 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'.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
not allowed
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See also[edit]
Verb[edit]
forbidden
- past participle of forbid
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