| Pronunciation: | | fur'bidn froot
|
| | Sponsored Links: | |
|
| |
 WordNet Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | | [n] the original forbidden fruit was an apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden; it is now used to refer to anything that is tempting but dangerous (as sexuality) |
| |
| | See Also: | | enticement, temptation |
|
| Thesaurus Terms |
| |
| | Related Terms: | | agacerie, allure, allurement, ambition, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, ban, beguilement, beguiling, bewitchery, bewitchment, blandishment, cajolery, captivation, catch, charisma, charm, charmingness, come-hither, contraband, dearest wish, denial, desideration, desideratum, desire, disallowance, Eighteenth Amendment, embargo, enchantment, enthrallment, enticement, entrapment, exclusion, fascination, flirtation, forbiddance, forbidding, glamour, glimmering goal, golden vision, hope, index, index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, inducement, inhibition, injunction, interdict, interdiction, interdictum, interest, inveiglement, invitation, law, lodestone, magnet, magnetism, no-no, plum, preclusion, prevention, prize, prohibition, Prohibition Party, prohibitory injunction, proscription, refusal, rejection, repression, restrictive covenants, ruling out, seducement, seduction, seductiveness, sex appeal, snaring, statute, sumptuary laws, suppression, taboo, tantalization, temptation, tree of knowledge, trophy, Volstead Act, winning ways, winsomeness, wish, witchery, wooing, zoning, zoning laws |
| |
|