untouchable

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India
• Syn:
Harijan
• Hypernyms:
outcast, castaway, pariah, Ishmael

II - adjective

1. beyond the reach of criticism or attack or impeachment
- "for the first time criticism was directed at a hitherto untouchable target"- Newsweek
• Similar to:
invulnerable
2. impossible to assail
• Syn:
unassailable
• Similar to:
inviolable
3. forbidden to the touch
- in most museums such articles are untouchable
• Similar to:
impermissible
4. ( especially used in traditional Hindu belief of the lowest caste or castes) defiling
• Similar to:
unclean, impure
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
• Similar to:
unavailable
• Derivationally related forms:
inaccessibility (for: inaccessible)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  inaccessible, unobtainable, unprocurable, unassailable, Harijan