Meaning of verboten | Babel Free

Definitions

(Strictly) forbidden or prohibited.

emphatic, humorous, not-comparable, often

Equivalents

Examples

“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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