Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Forbidden; prohibited.
Wiktionary
- adj. forbidden, prohibited
WordNet 3.0
- adj. excluded from use or mention
Etymologies
- From German verboten ("forbidden"). (Wiktionary)
- German, past participle of verbieten, to forbid, from Middle High German, from Old High German farbiotan; see bheudh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The one paraphilia that remains absolutely verboten is pedophilia.”
“Just compare 'verboten' with their lilting 'proibido.”
“I am not sure it is disproportionate, this is an affront to democracy and now the precedent has been set, what else could be "verboten" in future?”
“I'd rather be a gipsy on the road," had been Jean's passionate declaration, "and free, than a princess with a 'verboten' sign at all the palace gates.”
“They were delighted to escape the land where everything is "verboten" except hatred and militarism.”
“In the name of freedom we challenge with ships and men, money and an undaunted spirit, that word 'verboten' which Germany has written upon the sea and upon the land.”
“Whenever the word 'verboten' comes up I always think of the Miami Vice movie trailer.”
“The Day the Earth Stood Still is considered "verboten" by purists.”
“(French, English and German), the warning took the form of a prohibition: "Do not lean out of the windows", "Il est interdit de se pencher par les fenetres", and a German admonition which I can't cite from memory but in which the word "verboten" played a prominent role.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘verboten’.
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250 Extra Spelling Words
Some more words for intermediate and advanced spellers.
cultellarius, barouche, palanquin, badelaire, cavetto, tregetour, tergiversate, rhododendron, rhadamanthine, thyrsus, cappelletti, bradycardia and 238 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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March 2012
panache, evanescent, erogenous, vestibule, malfeasance, lacuna, blithering, incubate, breech, tabernacle, pearly, upholstery and 79 more...
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Game Change vocab
jejune, enmity, fabulist, ostensible, hustings, cipher, panjandrum, troika, verboten, pro forma, triumvir
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Tricky Words from German
Loanwords from German -- some established, some wet behind the ears -- that are difficult to spell, pronounce, or remember.
Torschlusspanik, Fräulein, weltanschauung, Weltschmerz, sprachgefühl, schadenfreude, katzenjammer, Radfahrer, gemütlich, zeitgeist, gesellschaft, gemeinschaft and 48 more...
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Vocabulary
shibboleth, verboten, jejune, ostensible, multifarious, quintessence, purportedly, tangential, vacillate, quagmire, wanton, onerous and 74 more...
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ecbrenner's list
flatline, luddism, apocalipstick, muttsucker, leviathan of fore..., flint, coryphaeus, donnybrook, bandwidth, bagpipe the mizen, cheesed off, asterism and 525 more...
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How very mikeropological..
Basically it's just mikeropology's words, but with his username turned into an adjectivally splendid list name.
mikeropology, squoze, anthropromorphism, mullu, spondylus, goobers, hipster, burnt umber, ochre, canvas, lapizure, burnt sienna and 172 more...
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German words
blödsinn, heimat, abendbrot, lebkuchen, schelm, currywurst, knatschig, spekulatius, knäppchen, apfelkitsche, woll, wonnich and 98 more...
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There's a word for that?
temerity, tacit, froward, faineant, caterwaul, menagerie, ennui, sine qua non, lissom, multifarious, laconic, katzenjammer and 240 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1402 more...
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je les adore!
fusillade, foal, celestial, abattoir, byzantium, berlin, casablanca, babylon, balkans, albion, avalon, between the devil... and 471 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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annscann's list
My words, generally
bavarois, bawbee, bawd, bawdry, libertine, russophobe, rubicund, gossamer, persnickety, claptrap, gesticulate, schadenfreudian and 199 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
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Words. Just words.
Our chief weapons are words, that's all. Just words. Only words, not justly words, that is.
That is to say that there are only words in this list, not words that are just, although s...profligacy, monty, the arc of history, luddite, peremptory, brusque, languid, callipygian, perniciously, insidiousness, camelot, perforce and 189 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for verboten.
sionnach I think most of them were developed with Quentin Crisp in mind. Nobody likes to have naked civil servants wantonly launching ocean liners or diving from lighthouses in their public parks. Nov 10, 2008
plethora Ok, I only understood about half of those little pictograms. Nov 10, 2008
bilby Ha, I remember taking a picture of that sign when I was in Saint Petersburg. Nov 10, 2008
sionnach
assorted prohibitions Nov 10, 2008