Antonyms for tabooed

Grammar : Verb

Spell : tuh-boo, ta-

Phonetic Transcription : təˈbu, tæ-

Definition of tabooed

Origin : 1777 (in Cook's "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean"), "consecrated, inviolable, forbidden, unclean or cursed," explained in some English sources as being from Tongan (Polynesian language of the island of Tonga) ta-bu "sacred," from ta "mark" + bu "especially." But this may be folk etymology, as linguists in the Pacific have reconstructed an irreducable Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu "sacred, forbidden" (cf. Hawaiian kapu "taboo, prohibition, sacred, holy, consecrated;" Tahitian tapu "restriction, sacred;" Maori tapu "be under ritual restriction, prohibited"). The noun and verb are English innovations first recorded in Cook's book.

As in inhibit : verb restrict, prevent
As in outlaw : verb prohibit; make illegal
As in prohibit : verb make impossible; stop
As in interdict : verb destroy
As in deny : verb disagree, renounce, decline
As in disallow : verb reject, prohibit
As in enjoin : verb forbid
As in except : verb leave out
As in forbid : verb outlaw, prohibit an action

Example sentences :

Any one who questions our triumphant progress is tabooed for a pedant.
Extract from : « Another Sheaf » by John Galsworthy

Politics was a subject dear to her heart, but one tabooed at Upton.
Extract from : « Mary Wollstonecraft » by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Why iron should have been tabooed by the Fairy and her father, must remain an open question.
Extract from : « Welsh Folk-Lore » by Elias Owen

The language of Shakespeare and the Bible contains words which are now tabooed.
Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner

A thing which is tabooed becomes interesting and more or less awful.
Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner

You mustn't abuse the chapel to Frank; just at this moment the subject is tabooed.
Extract from : « The Vicar of Bullhampton » by Anthony Trollope

Some of the boys wanted to sing, but this had to be tabooed.
Extract from : « The Rover Boys Under Canvas » by Arthur M. Winfield

We were told that Terreeoboo was absent, and that the bay was tabooed.
Extract from : « The World's Greatest Books, Volume 19 » by Various

Or tabooed,” suggested the lady; “his tongue may have been tabooed.
Extract from : « Jarwin and Cuffy » by R.M. Ballantyne

They settle what or who is to be tabooed, and how long it is to last.
Extract from : « The Cruise of the Mary Rose » by William H. G. Kingston

Synonyms for tabooed

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