English-Dutch translations for taboo

• taboe
  De tijd voor het Vragenuur moet absoluut taboe zijn! Question Time must be strictly taboo.
  Voor alle anderen was dit grotendeels taboe. It was a taboo subject for everyone else.
  Het is geen taboe; dit is een democratie. It is not a taboo subject; this is a democracy.

Definition of taboo

• An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion
• Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred
• Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention
• Culturally forbidden
• To mark as taboo
• To avoid

Examples

• Incest is a taboo subject in most soap operas.

Related words

• tabooing
• detaboo
• taboo issue
• taboo subject
• taboo topic
• breaking of a taboo