verboten

Adjective

verboten (not comparable)

1. (emphatic, humorous, 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).2015 February 27, Laura Kipnis, “Sexual paranoia strikes academe”, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Washington, D.C.: Chronicle of Higher Education Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original...
   • Or was it because he [Mark Zuckerberg] has since been steeped in the relentless positivity of Silicon Valley, where it is verboten to imagine a bad outcome?2018 August 2, Kara Swisher, “The expensive education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...

   Synonyms:

   banned, disallowed, proscribed, forbidden, impermissible, illegal, illicit, interdicted, nonallowed, nonlicet