• IPA: /fɝˈbɪdən/

forbidden

1. Not allowed#Adjective|allowed; specifically disallowed.

   Synonyms: prohibited, verboten

   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398 ↗, lines 415–420, page 83 ↗:

     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'.

• French: interdit
• German: verboten
• Italian: vietato, proibito
• Portuguese: proibido
• Russian: запрещённый
• Spanish: prohibido

1. past participle of forbid#English|forbid