untouchable (redirected from Untouchables)

un·touch·a·ble  (n-tch-bl)

adj.

1. Not to be touched.

2. Out of reach; unobtainable.

3. Being beyond the reach of criticism, impeachment, or attack.

4. Loathsome or unpleasant to the touch.

n. often Untouchable

A member of the class that is excluded from and considered unclean and defiling by the four Hindu castes.

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un·toucha·bili·ty n.

un·toucha·bly adv.

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untouchable

Adjective

1. above criticism, suspicion or punishment

2. unable to be touched

Noun

a member of the lowest class in India, whose touch was formerly regarded as defiling to the four main castes

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	untouchable - belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India Harijan castaway, outcast, pariah, Ishmael - a person who is rejected (from society or home)
Adj.	1.	untouchable - beyond the reach of criticism or attack or impeachment; "for the first time criticism was directed at a hitherto untouchable target"- Newsweek invulnerable - immune to attack; impregnable; "gunners raked the beach from invulnerable positions on the cliffs"
	2.	untouchable - impossible to assail unassailable inviolable - incapable of being transgressed or dishonored; "the person of the king is inviolable"; "an inviolable oath"
	3.	untouchable - forbidden to the touch; "in most museums such articles are untouchable" impermissible - not permitted; "impermissible behavior"
	4.	untouchable - ( especially used in traditional Hindu belief of the lowest caste or castes) defiling unclean, impure - having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws; "unclean meat"; "and the swine...is unclean to you"-Leviticus 11:3
	5.	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" unobtainable, unprocurable, inaccessible unavailable - not available or accessible or at hand; "fresh milk was unavailable during the emergency"; "his secretary said he was unavailable for comment"