untouchable

Meanings

Plural: untouchables

Noun

• belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India
• A criminal who is so well-connected that they cannot be harmed.
• Synonym of outcast: a person excluded from society.
• A member of the lowest and most discriminated caste in traditional Indian society.
• A law enforcement agent immune to intimidation, bribery, or seduction.

Adjective Satellite

• beyond the reach of criticism or attack or impeachment; - Newsweek
  • "for the first time criticism was directed at a hitherto untouchable target"
• impossible to assail
• forbidden to the touch
  • "in most museums such articles are untouchable"
• ( especially used in traditional Hindu belief of the lowest caste or castes) defiling
• not capable of being obtained
  • "untouchable resources buried deep within the earth"

Adj

• Not able to be touched.
• Not able to be defeated or bested.

Synonyms

Dalit, Harijan, inaccessible, outcast, pariah, unassailable, undesirable, unobtainable, unprocurable

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