verbotenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Unadapted borrowing from German verboten (“banned, forbidden, prohibited”). Doublet of forbidden.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌvəˈbəʊtn̩/, /fə-/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌfəɹˈboʊt(ə)n/, /ˌvəɹ-/, [-ɾ(ə)n]
• 韻: -əʊtən
• ハイフネーション: ver‧bot‧en

形容詞

verboten (not comparable)

1. (often emphatic or humorous) (Strictly) forbidden or prohibited.

   Synonyms: banned, disallowed, proscribed; see also Thesaurus:forbidden

   • 2015 February 27, Laura Kipnis, “Sexual paranoia strikes academe”, in The Chronicle of Higher Education‎, Washington, D.C.: Chronicle of Higher Education Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 July 2020:

     Before that, students and professors could date whomever we wanted; the next day we were off-limits to one another—verboten, traife, dangerous (and perhaps, therefore, all the more alluring).

   • 2018 August 2, Kara Swisher, “The expensive education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 February 2024:

     Or was it because he [Mark Zuckerberg] has since been steeped in the relentless positivity of Silicon Valley, where it is verboten to imagine a bad outcome?

参照

アナグラム

• overbent