forbidden act
What's off-limits
A forbidden act is something prohibited by law, rule, or moral code.
The phrase often carries weight beyond simple prohibition—suggesting transgression with consequences: Eating the apple was the original forbidden act.
In religious and legal contexts, forbidden acts may be enumerated explicitly; in everyday use, the phrase implies breaking a serious taboo rather than a minor rule.
- tabooCultural or social prohibition
- social tabooForbidden act by custom
- sinViolation of divine law
- cardinal sinFundamental moral violation
- mortal sinGrace-destroying spiritual offense
original sin · transgression · violation · trespass · crime · breaking the law · illicit · unlawful · prohibited · banned · off limits · thou shalt not · secret · dark secret · temptation · desire · guilty pleasure · guilt
- wrongdoingmisconduct, crime, sabotage, crimes, misbehavior
- wrongdoingscrime, crimes, sin, sins, wrongdoing
- deviancedeviance, perversion, perversity, aberration, abnormality
forbidden actgood deed
Benevolent act
ethical conduct · noble act · mitzvah · ethical behavior · sacred duty
forbidden actduty
Required moral task
imperative · sacred duty · religious obligation · civic duty · mitzvah
forbidden, forbid, forbids, forbidding, forbade, forbiddance, acting, action, actions