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Synonyms for taboo
təˈbu, tæ-taboo
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Princeton's WordNet
taboo, tabunoun
a prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature
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tabuAntonyms:
permissible, secular, allowable, profanetaboo, tabuadjective
an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion
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tabuAntonyms:
allowable, profane, permissible, secularforbidden, out(p), prohibited, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verbotenadjective
excluded from use or mention
"forbidden fruit"; "in our house dancing and playing cards were out"; "a taboo subject"
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secular, permissible, profane, allowabletaboo, tabuverb
forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands
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verboten, prohibited, tabu, proscribed, out(p), forbiddenAntonyms:
permissible, allowable, secular, profanetabooverb
declare as sacred and forbidden
Antonyms:
profane, permissible, allowable, secular
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jaime luis gómez
Submitted by ryan_1 on July 28, 2020
Dictionary of English Synonymes
taboonoun
Synonyms:
interdict, prohibitiontabooverb
Synonyms:
interdict, forbid, prohibit, put under taboo, put under an interdict, forbid to be used or touched
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
tabooadjective
Synonyms:
prohibited, forbidden, interdicted, proscribedtaboonoun
Synonyms:
interdiction, prohibition, proscriptiontabooverb
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#4309 | prohibited | |
#9548 | forbidden | |
#13634 | taboo | |
#45813 | tabu | |
#60872 | proscribed | |
#84164 | verboten |
How to use taboo in a sentence?
I don’t think it’s taboo, i think what’s happening, been happening in England and I suspect in the States as well, is that companies and distributors and people who make money out of television and films, are seeing that there is a huge audience that wants to see material that doesn’t alienate them, but makes them feel that they’re watching something they can relate to. And therefore, you have to [recognize] the show spectrum of society and not just focus on beautiful people who are under 35.
The coffins show the skill and care with which the Egyptians prepared for the afterlife, to us, for whom death is a taboo subject, this seems like a morbid preoccupation. In fact, it was an obsession with life and an urgent wish to ensure its perfected continuation.
This film has been like a shock to Polish society and has managed to create real social awareness of a subject that has been very taboo in Poland.
They did not know what I was doing before, they are more aware now although they tried to persuade me to leave my job. I told them this is the way I live and I will stick with it, it used to be a taboo but we openly talk about it now. Many parents did not realize there are so many LGBT people here until then.
The investigation deals with a taboo subject. It is rarely discussed that parents often experience a considerable loss of happiness after the birth of a first child, the new study shows that for mothers and fathers in Germany, the drop in life satisfaction during the year following the first birth is even larger than that caused by unemployment, divorce or the death of a partner.
Translations for taboo
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- محرمArabic
- tabúCatalan, Valencian
- tabu, tabuizovatCzech
- tabuisieren, tabuGerman
- ταμπούGreek
- tabuoEsperanto
- tabúSpanish
- tabuEstonian
- تابوPersian
- merkitä, tabu, välttää, kieltääFinnish
- tabuFijian
- taboue, tabouFrench
- tabuIndonesian
- tabùItalian
- 禁制, 排斥, 禁忌, タブー, 禁止Japanese
- 금기Korean
- tabuLithuanian
- tabuLatvian
- tapuMāori
- taboeDutch
- tabuPortuguese
- табуRussian
- tabuSerbo-Croatian
- tapuSamoan
- pamaliSundanese
- tambikoSwahili
- tabuTonga (Tonga Islands)
- 忌諱Chinese
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