verboten

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˌvəˈbəʊtn̩/
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/ˌvəˈbəʊtn̩/ · /fə-/ · /ˌfəɹˈboʊt(ə)n/ · /ˌvəɹ-/ · [-ɾ(ə)n]

Definition of verboten

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (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).”
    “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?”

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Etymology

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

Anagrams of verboten

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