Taboo

Noun

 * 1) An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.
 * 2)  Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.
 * 1)  Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.

Adjective

 * 1) Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.
 * Incest is a taboo subject in most soap operas.

Verb

 * 1) To mark as taboo.
 * 2) To ban.
 * 3) To avoid.

Verbs for Taboo
countenance—; denounce—; enforce—; ignore—; impose—; observe—; remove—; set up—; —bans; —bars; —debars; —excludes;

Adverbs for Taboo
racially; conventionally; inanely; snobbishly; socially; piously; ceremonially; strictly traditionally; ecclesiastically; irrationally inexplicably; utterly; politically; seriously curiously; gravely.

Thesaurus
Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, anathema, ban, banned, bar, bar out, barred, barring, blockade, boycott, censorable, censored, circumscription, contraband, count out, cut off, debar, debarment, debarring, demarcation, denial, deny, dirty, disallow, disallowance, embargo, enjoin, exception, exclude, exclude from, exclusion, explicit, forbade, forbid, forbiddance, forbidden, forbidden fruit, forbidding, freeze out, ignore, illegal, illicit, impolite, inadmissibility, indecorous, index, index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, inhibit, inhibition, injunction, interdict, interdicted, interdiction, interdictum, jargonal, jargonish, keep out, law, leave out, limitation, lock out, lockout, narrowing, no-no, nonadmission, nonpermissible, not permitted, off limits, omission, omit, ostracize, out of bounds, outlaw, outlawed, pass over, preclude, preclusion, prevent, prevention, prohibit, prohibited, prohibition, prohibitory injunction, proscribe, proscribed, proscription, refusal, refuse, regulation, reject, rejection, relegate, relegation, repress, repression, repudiate, repudiation, reservation, restraint, restricted, restriction, restrictive covenants, rude, rule out, ruled out, ruling out, sanction, say no to, scatological, send to Coventry, shut out, slang, slangy, statute, sumptuary laws, suppress, suppression, tabooed, unacceptable, unallowed, unauthorized, under the ban, unlawful, unlicensed, unmentionable, unpermissible, unsanctioned, unspeakable, untouchable, verboten, vetoed, zoning, zoning laws

Alternative forms

 * tabu