Hypertext Webster Gateway: "untouchable"
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
untouchable
adj 1: beyond the reach of criticism or attack or impeachment; "for
the first time criticism was directed at a hitherto
untouchable target"- Newsweek
2: impossible to assail [syn: {unassailable}]
3: forbidden to the touch; "in most museums such articles are
untouchable"
4: defiling to the touch; especially used in traditional Hindu
belief of the lowest caste or castes
5: not capable of being obtained; "a rare work, today almost
inaccessible"; "timber is virtually unobtainable in the
islands"; "untouchable resources buried deep within the
earth" [syn: {inaccessible}, {unobtainable}, {unprocurable}]
n : belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India [syn: {Harijan}]
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