What is the meaning of untouchable?

noun

  • Belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India.

adjective

  • Beyond the reach of criticism or attack or impeachment. "for the first time criticism was directed at a hitherto untouchable target- Newsweek
  • Impossible to assail.
  • Forbidden to the touch.
    • usage: "in most museums such articles are untouchable"
  • (adj.) (( especially used in traditional Hindu belief of the lowest caste or castes) defiling)
  • Not capable of being obtained.
    • usage: "a rare work, today almost inaccessible"; "timber is virtually unobtainable in the islands"; "untouchable resources buried deep within the earth"
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