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forbidden

adj
/fəˈbɪdən/UK/fɚˈbɪdən/US/fəɾˈbɪdən/

Etymology

Past participle of the verb forbid. Doublet of verboten. Compare German verboten, Dutch verboden, Swedish förbjuden, and West Frisian ferbean.

  1. derived from ferbean
  2. derived from förbjuden
  3. derived from verboden
  4. derived from verboten

Definitions

  1. Not allowed

    Not allowed; specifically disallowed.

    • This kind of immediate control structure we take to be characteristic of the tribe, and it leads to a rather rigid type of system in which 'every action not mandatory is forbidden'.

  2. past participle of forbid

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at forbidden. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01forbidden02disallowed03disallow04allow05let06interference07illegal

A definitional loop anchored at forbidden. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at forbidden

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA