English-Portuguese translations for taboo

• tabu
  Era um assunto tabu para todas as outras pessoas. It was a taboo subject for everyone else.
  O termo "estatuto” é, de facto, tabu para o Grupo PPE-DE. The word 'statute' really is taboo for the PPE-DE.
  Não é um tema tabu; isto é uma democracia. 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