English-French translations for taboo

• tabou
  Aujourd' hui, le tabou à été rompu. Now the taboo has been broken.
  Pour tous les autres, le sujet était tabou. It was a taboo subject for everyone else.
  Le nucléaire semblait un sujet tabou. Nuclear energy seemed to be a taboo subject.
• taboue

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