'Taboo' definitions:
Definition of 'taboo'
From: WordNet
adjective
Excluded from use or mention; "forbidden fruit"; "in our house dancing and playing cards were out"; "a taboo subject" [syn: forbidden, out(p), prohibited, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verboten]
adjective
Forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands [syn: taboo, tabu]
noun
A prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature [syn: taboo, tabu]
noun
An inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion [syn: taboo, tabu]
verb
Declare as sacred and forbidden
Definition of 'Taboo'
From: GCIDE
- Taboo \Ta*boo"\, n. A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction. [Written also tabu.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Taboo'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Taboo'
From: GCIDE
- Taboo \Ta*boo"\, a. [Written also tabu and tapu.] [Polynesian tabu, tapu, sacred, under restriction, a prohibition.] Set apart or sacred by religious custom among certain races of Polynesia, New Zealand, etc., and forbidden to certain persons or uses; hence, prohibited under severe penalties; interdicted; as, food, places, words, customs, etc., may be taboo. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'taboo'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anathema,
- ban,
- banned,
- bar,
- bar out,
- barred,
- barring,
- blockade,
- boycott,
- censorable,
- censored,
- circumscription,
- contraband,
- count out,
- cut off,
- debar,
- debarment,
- debarring,
- demarcation,
- denial,
- deny,
- dirty,
- disallow,
- disallowance,
- Eighteenth Amendment,
- embargo,
- enjoin,
- exception,
- exclude,
- exclude from,
- exclusion,
- explicit,
- forbade,
- forbid,
- forbiddance,
- forbidden,
- forbidden fruit,
- forbidding,
- freeze out,
- ignore,
- illegal,
- illicit,
- impolite,
- inadmissibility,
- indecorous,
- index,
- index expurgatorius,
- index librorum prohibitorum,
- inhibit,
- inhibition,
- injunction,
- interdict,
- interdicted,
- interdiction,
- interdictum,
- jargonal,
- jargonish,
- keep out,
- law,
- leave out,
- limitation,
- lock out,
- lockout,
- narrowing,
- no-no,
- nonadmission,
- nonpermissible,
- not permitted,
- off limits,
- omission,
- omit,
- ostracize,
- out of bounds,
- outlaw,
- outlawed,
- pass over,
- preclude,
- preclusion,
- prevent,
- prevention,
- prohibit,
- prohibited,
- prohibition,
- Prohibition Party,
- prohibitory injunction,
- proscribe,
- proscribed,
- proscription,
- refusal,
- refuse,
- regulation,
- reject,
- rejection,
- relegate,
- relegation,
- repress,
- repression,
- repudiate,
- repudiation,
- reservation,
- restraint,
- restricted,
- restriction,
- restrictive covenants,
- rude,
- rule out,
- ruled out,
- ruling out,
- sanction,
- say no to,
- scatological,
- send to Coventry,
- shut out,
- slang,
- slangy,
- statute,
- sumptuary laws,
- suppress,
- suppression,
- tabooed,
- unacceptable,
- unallowed,
- unauthorized,
- under the ban,
- unlawful,
- unlicensed,
- unmentionable,
- unpermissible,
- unsanctioned,
- unspeakable,
- untouchable,
- verboten,
- vetoed,
- Volstead Act,
- zoning,
- zoning laws