Untouchable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Untouchable \Untouchable\
     See {touchable}.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]
       3: forbidden to the touch; "in most museums such articles are
          untouchable"
       4: defiling to the touch; especially used in traditional Hindu
          belief of the lowest caste or castes
       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}]
       n : belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India [syn: {Harijan}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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