Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of ban
comparative more banned · superlative most banned
- Forbidden; not allowed.
As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants.
2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 10 Aug 20201 more example
The London-based Free Tibet Campaign said at least 500 Tibetans had protested in the province's Luqu county on Saturday, where they burned Chinese flags and flew the banned Tibetan flag.
2008 March 17, “Gansu Tibetan unrest contained: witnesses”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2026, TibetSynonyms: disallowed, prohibited, proscribed, disallowed, forbidden, impermissible, illegal, illicit
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveForbidden; not allowed.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveforbidden by law
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
French interdit
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German verboten
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Hindi वर्जित, प्रतिबंधित
- वर्जित (varjit)Translations
- प्रतिबंधित (pratibandhit)Translations
Spanish vedado, defeso
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Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
banned. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/banned
“banned.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/banned. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “banned,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/banned.
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