What does verboten mean?
Verboten means (often emphatic or humorous) (Strictly) forbidden or prohibited..
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/ˌvəˈbəʊtn̩/ · adjective
(often emphatic or humorous) (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?
Use verboten when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Verboten means (often emphatic or humorous) (Strictly) forbidden or prohibited..
Common synonyms include banned, disallowed, proscribed, forbidden.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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).
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