Taboo Synonyms and Antonyms

təbo͝o, tabo͝o
Excluded from use or mention
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. forbidden
  2. tabu
  3. prohibited
  4. proscribed
  5. sacred
  6. contraband
  7. out-of-bounds
  8. ineffable
  9. interdicted
  10. out
  11. inviolate
  12. reserved
  13. censorable
  14. proscriptive
  15. verboten
Not allowed
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. forbidden
  2. impermissible
  3. verboten
Antonyms:
  1. allowed
  2. acceptable
  3. ok
  4. mentionable

Words Related to Taboo

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Taboo Sentence Examples

  • The word holiness (qodesh) in primitive Hebrew usage partook of the nature of taboo, and came to be applied to whatever, whether thing or person, stood in close relation to deity and belonged to him, and could not, therefore, be used or treated like other objects not so related, and so was separated or stood apart.

  • The custom of taboo was very fully developed.

  • Disease and death were often connected with the violation of taboo, the offended gods thus punishing the offenders.

  • There are various other subjects and occasions of taboo, but the institution has not the oppressive and all-pervading character which it has in Polynesia.

  • They were feared, too, as ministers of the taboo and were entitled to pronounce a kind of excommunication for offences against its rules.

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