- not allowed
- Photography is strictly forbidden in the museum.
- The conversation was in danger of wandering into forbidden territory (= topics that they were not allowed to talk about).
- It is not forbidden to dream of a better world.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryForbidden is used with these nouns:- love
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Idioms
See forbidden in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee forbidden in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishforbidden fruit
- a thing that is not allowed and that therefore seems very attractive
- Well, you know what they say— forbidden fruit tastes sweetest.
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