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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India;
[syn: untouchable, Harijan]


ADJECTIVE (5)

1. beyond the reach of criticism or attack or impeachment;
- Example: "for the first time criticism was directed at a hitherto untouchable target"- Newsweek

2. impossible to assail;
[syn: unassailable, untouchable]

3. forbidden to the touch;
- Example: "in most museums such articles are untouchable"

4. ( especially used in traditional Hindu belief of the lowest caste or castes) defiling;

5. not capable of being obtained;
- Example: "a rare work, today almost inaccessible"
- Example: "timber is virtually unobtainable in the islands"
- Example: "untouchable resources buried deep within the earth"
[syn: inaccessible, unobtainable, unprocurable, untouchable]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Untouchable \Untouchable\ See touchable.
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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, untouchable] 3: forbidden to the touch; "in most museums such articles are untouchable" 4: ( especially used in traditional Hindu belief of the lowest caste or castes) defiling 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, untouchable] n 1: belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India [syn: untouchable, Harijan]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

122 Moby Thesaurus words for "untouchable": DP, Ishmael, affectless, anesthetized, antipodean, arctic, autistic, awesome, awful, back of beyond, banned, barred, blunt, castaway, catatonic, chill, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, contraband, cool, declasse, derelict, dispassionate, displaced person, divine, drugged, dull, emotionally dead, emotionless, evictee, exile, expatriate, expellee, forbade, forbid, forbidden, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, godforsaken, heartless, heavenly, holy, hyperborean, icy, illegal, illicit, immovable, impassible, impassive, inaccessible, ineffable, inenarrable, inexcitable, inexpressible, insusceptible, inviolable, inviolate, leper, nonemotional, nonpermissible, not permitted, numinous, objective, obtuse, off limits, out of bounds, out of reach, out of touch, out-of-the-way, outcast, outcast of society, outcaste, outlaw, outlawed, outsider, pariah, passionless, persona non grata, prohibited, religious, ruled out, sacred, sacrosanct, self-absorbed, social outcast, soulless, spiritless, spiritual, taboo, tabooed, unacceptable person, unaffectionate, unallowed, unapproachable, unauthorized, under the ban, undesirable, unemotional, unfeeling, ungetatable, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unlawful, unlicensed, unloving, unpassionate, unpermissible, unresponding, unresponsive, unsanctioned, unspeakable, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, unutterable, venerable, verboten, vetoed