untouchable
from
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}]
from
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
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