Taboo is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TABOO in dictionary:

VERB:
• to exclude or prohibit by social influence, also TABU
• place under a taboo
• To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals.
• declare as sacred and forbidden
NOUN:
• a social or religious custom prohibiting or restricting a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing
• a practice that is prohibited or restricted by social or religious custom
• prohibition resulting from religious or social conventions
• A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction.
• a prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature
• an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion
ADJECTIVE:
• prohibited or restricted by social custom
• designated as sacred and prohibited
• excluded from use or mention
• forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands
• forbidden by a taboo
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to exclude from use, approach, or mention

Words related to TABOO

tabooed10 tabooing11 taboos8 tabu6

Words that contain TABOO

taboos8 tabooed10 tabooing11 tabooley13 tabooleys14

How to use TABOO in a sentence

• String is of course taboo, but bass is allowed because it grows, also strips of skin.
• Cards, under the laws of Texas, are taboo, but for some reason Sabota managed to get by and games were allowed in his place.
• Money matters was just about the one real taboo that she respected and to break over this habitual reticence even with an old friend like Wallace troubled her delicacy.
• Easily could Borckman lift him down the precipitous ladder, which was to him, unaided, a taboo, the violation of which was pregnant with disaster.
• Lenerengo had never forgotten the fate of the last Mary who had broken the taboo.
• Since no one else knew of the broken taboo, he could afford to keep quiet.
• It was old Nino, high priest before Agno, with an ear open to the voice of the shark-god, who had so laid the taboo.
• And thus his own four-legged cousins came painfully to know that he was taboo.
• And, since the taboo was essentially religious, to Agno was deputed the ecclesiastical task of guarding and cherishing and caring for the royal laying-yard.
• The taboo of the dog, as he expounded it, had prevented him from interfering with the taboo dog when it ate the taboo egg-layers.
• The word had gone forth immediately that the taboo on him had been removed, and of the men and boys none was so low as to do him reverence.
• He had lived too long and too philosophically to lay blame on a dog for breaking a taboo which it did not know.
• But he allowed this to be done because the dogs themselves in nowise interested him, and because their deaths emphasized the sacredness of the taboo.
• The governor now got Ooroony to assemble his priests and chiefs, and to pronounce a taboo on all intercourse with the whites for one year.
• The boxer was afraid that after we left he might roll a rock down our trail because of our breaking his taboo.
• None molested us, for those to whom the queen showed favour were taboo to the rest of the tribe, so that as long as I retained her goodwill I was safe.
• The fish were under a strict Taboo, until the distribution was completed, which seemed to be effected in the most impartial manner.
• How many yards he would have to remove from Jimmy before the taboo would be powerless, it would be hard to tell, but probably he himself knew to a fraction.
• Among the Siouan Indians the devices of taboo, kin-names, and ordination are found in such relation as to throw some light on the growth of primitive institutions.
• Charm and taboo, or reward and punishment in the present life.
• I cannot think that he has wholly escaped that element in Puritanism which may fairly bear the title of the taboo.
• Research training had been taboo in school, except for a favored few.
• Tambo is Melanesian for taboo, and is first cousin to that Polynesian word.
• Why parents have chosen to taboo this important subject, and why they surround it with falsehood and subterfuge, and suggest that it is unclean or vulgar, has always puzzled me.
• Very many people, for very various reasons, would taboo the subjects here discoursed of altogether.
• When death occurs, the spirit remains near to the corpse until after the funeral, and even then is close by until the ten days of taboo are over.
• Likewise, no one may wear a hat or prepare food during the period of taboo.
• It is here followed by a three-day period of taboo.
• But, in one way or another, usually by breach of a taboo, Death enters the world.
• In illustration of the real power of the imagination, I may instance the Maori superstition of the Taboo.
• The voice of their order, the first taboo of their freemasonry, is firmly against making a sentimental debauch of the serious business of marriage.
• Women are taboo to him for the space of one year from the date of its erection.
• Until the age of twenty-one, woman was to be taboo for Jerry Benham, not only her substance, but her essence.

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