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Barred vs Forbidden - What's the difference?

barred | forbidden |

As adjectives the difference between barred and forbidden

is that barred is having bars; striped while forbidden is not allowed.

As verbs the difference between barred and forbidden

is that barred is (bar) while forbidden is .

barred

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having bars; striped.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=14 citation , passage=Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall.  Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.}}
  • Prevented.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (bar)
    • He barred the door at evening.
    ----

    forbidden

    English

    (wikipedia forbidden)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • not allowed.
  • * 1999 , Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind , page 276
    • This kind of immediate control structure we take to be characteristic of the tribe, and it leads to a rather rigid type of system in which 'every action not mandatory is forbidden' .

    Synonyms

    * prohibited

    Related terms

    * taboo

    Verb

    (head)
    • English adjectives ending in -en English irregular past participles