Forbidden
WordNet
adjective
(1) Excluded from use or mention
"Forbidden fruit"
"In our house dancing and playing cards were out"
"A taboo subject"
WiktionaryText
Adjective
- not allowed.
- 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'.
- 1999, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind, page 276