Forbidden vs Rejected - What's the difference?
forbidden | rejected |
not allowed.
* 1999 , Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind , page 276
(reject)
To refuse to accept.
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(basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
As verbs the difference between forbidden and rejected
is that forbidden is past participle of lang=en while rejected is past tense of reject.As an adjective forbidden
is not allowed.forbidden
English
(wikipedia forbidden)Adjective
(en adjective)- 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' .