BANNED Synonyms: 168 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in prohibited

that may not be permitted at one time books, movies, and plays could use "banned in Boston" as a selling point

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verb

past tense of ban

as in outlawed

to order not to do or use or to be done or used the company absolutely bans smoking within its buildings

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as in excluded

to prevent the participation, consideration, or inclusion of the university banned those caught in the cheating scandal from graduation ceremonies

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Recent Examples of banned

Verb

Some renters are now demanding that this kind of billing practice — often handled by outside companies, which add on their own fees — be banned outright. — Audrey McGlinchy, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026 The Chicago Sky have banned Enes Kanter Freedom from their home games after the former NBA center was ejected from Sunday's loss to the Indiana Fever. — CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026 Capital punishment was banned in the European country in 1981. — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026 The research dean also is banned from campus pending the outcome of an investigation. — Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 26 Aug. 2026 Gao was charged under a 2018 law that banned the defamation of historical figures associated with the Chinese Communist Party. — News Desk, Artforum, 25 Aug. 2026 The Ivy League banned full-contact tackling during practices five years later. — Nadia Kounang, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026 Prestianni denied the allegation and was subsequently banned by UEFA and FIFA after admitting to using a homophobic (rather than racist) slur against the Madrid forward. — Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026 Cocaine is banned as a doping substance during competitions, with lower sanctions applied when used away from events. — ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for banned

Adjective

Their forbidden love leads the Jade Emperor to decree their separation on opposite sides of the Milky Way.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
To control the dangerous unfettered use of magic, an oversight council established ground rules on what is considered forbidden magic and the knowledge of its existence.

— Kalai Chik, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of forbidden

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She was ordered to surrender her police identification, keys, weapon, and radio, and was prohibited from entering department property without the chief’s permission.

— Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 21 Aug. 2026
Cameras are allowed only to capture relevant information for the violation and are prohibited from continuous recording.

— Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of prohibited

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When the employer contribution is excluded, the lifetime benefits amount to roughly 265% of what the worker personally paid into Social Security.

— Joshua Hong, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
But lawmakers offered little explanation during a June 30 hearing for why those particular offenses were excluded.

— Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of excluded

Verb

Those of us with a platform need to use our voices before speaking out is outlawed altogether.

— Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 25 Aug. 2026
If the Democratic Party wanted to pass a national version of the DPA, thousands of DSPs would be outlawed and hundreds of thousands of DSP employees would either lose their jobs or be hired by Amazon.

— Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of outlawed

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Despite growing up in the city of Motown and the country’s R&B capital, CeCe Winans and her siblings were not permitted to listen to secular music—their parents forbade it.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Aug. 2026
Chinese tech giant ByteDance’s founder reportedly forbade AI researchers from distilling rival models, as scrutiny of the practice causes friction between Washington and Beijing.

— Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of forbade

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As a result of dropping the primary discrimination claims, the court eliminated the $2 million in punitive damages and $100,000 for emotional distress.

— Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 25 Aug. 2026
Measles cases reach record high Measles cases in the United States have surpassed last year's total and are at their highest since the disease was eliminated from the country nearly three decades ago, according to CDC data.

— Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of eliminated

Verb

Reuters published an interview with Sinan Can Demir, a Texas computer science student who in late July prevented a rogue version of Anthropic’s Mythos model from uploading malicious code to an open-source software project on Github.

— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
ProPublica went further, enlisting the help of experts to determine which of those deaths could have been prevented.

— Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 25 Aug. 2026