noun
- Belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India.
- synonyms: Harijan
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.
- synonyms: unassailable
- 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"
- synonyms: inaccessible, unobtainable, unprocurable
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