Prohibit vs Forbidden - What's the difference?
prohibit | forbidden |
To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.
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As verbs the difference between prohibit and forbidden
is that prohibit is to forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit while forbidden is past participle of lang=en.As an adjective forbidden is
not allowed.prohibit
English
Verb
(en verb)Ed Pilkington
‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited , yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}
Synonyms
* forbid * disallow * ban * See alsoAntonyms
* allow * authorizeSee also
* interdict * debar * prevent * hinderExternal links
* * English transitive verbs ----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' .