untouchable

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untouchable Definition

• (n) belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India
• (s) beyond the reach of criticism or attack or impeachment; "for the first time criticism was directed at a hitherto untouchable target"- Newsweek
• (s) impossible to assail
• (s) forbidden to the touch; "in most museums such articles are untouchable"
• (s) defiling to the touch; especially used in traditional Hindu belief of the lowest caste or castes
• (s) 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"

untouchable Synonyms

• Harijan
• inaccessible
• unassailable
• unobtainable
• unprocurable
• untouchable