off-limits

Speech parts

1. off-limits - Adjective

2. off-limits - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

barred to a designated group

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

off limits

Synonyms

out of bounds tabu private impermissible prohibitory closed illegal banned prohibited forbidden prohibition illicit forbid taboo unlawful
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Antonyms

public available accessible attainable obtainable unrestricted
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Examples

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits. Ann Beattie

I don't like the idea of things being off-limits to kids - like a fancy sitting room where they can't touch anything. I own vintage pottery cups, and I let my girls hold them. It teaches them to treat objects with respect. Debi Mazar

So let me get this straight,” Carter said. "The two guys you liked-one who was dying and one who was off-limits because he's a god-are now one guy, who isn't dying and isn't off-limits. And you're complaining. Rick Riordan

The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz. Oskar Schindler

When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting. Jerry Saltz

I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged. George Osborne

Close letter words and terms

off-licence off-license off-limb off-line off-line edition off-line equipment