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untouchable   (TTS Sound)

The noun untouchable has 1 sense

• untouchable, Harijan -- (belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India)

The adj untouchable has 5 senses

• untouchable -- (beyond the reach of criticism or attack or impeachment; "for the first time criticism was directed at a hitherto untouchable target"- Newsweek)


• unassailable, untouchable -- (impossible to assail)


• untouchable -- (forbidden to the touch; "in most museums such articles are untouchable")


• untouchable -- (( especially used in traditional Hindu belief of the lowest caste or castes) defiling)


• inaccessible, unobtainable, unprocurable, untouchable -- (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")