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Untouchable - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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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]
(noun)
1: belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India [syn: Harijan]
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