taboo
IPA: tæbˈu
noun
- An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.
- (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.
verb
- To mark as taboo.
- To ban.
- To avoid.
adjective
- Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.
- Culturally forbidden.
Examples of "taboo" in Sentences
- By far, the most important victory for breaking the word taboo comes in Cohen v.
- In short, those negative precepts which we call taboo are just as vain and futile as those positive precepts which we call sorcery.
- He says the Holocaust was being used to legitimise the suffering of other peoples and he wanted to break what he called a taboo on discussing it.
- Thai government distanced itself Wednesday from remarks in the Minister Kasit Piromya about a need for a more open discussion of what he called the taboo subject of the role of the monarchy in
- In an article in the Daily Telegraph, he describes the public reaction to his remarks as "hysterical", and says that a breach in what he calls the taboo on discussing race is "punished by ostracism and worse … the witch finders already have their sights on me".