untouchable

untouchable / n't bl/
  • tính từ
    • không thể sờ được; không thể động đến
    • danh từ
      • tiện dân (ở Ân độ, người không thuộc đng cấp nào, bị coi khinh, sờ vào thì như thể là bị d bẩn)

    Word families (Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs): touch, touchiness, touch, touched, untouched, touching, touchy, untouchable, touchingly, touchily

    Xem thêm: Harijan, unassailable, inaccessible, unobtainable, unprocurable



    untouchable

    Từ điển WordNet

      n.

    • belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India; Harijan

      adj.

    • 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; unassailable
    • forbidden to the touch

      in most museums such articles are untouchable

    • defiling to the touch; especially used in traditional Hindu belief of the lowest caste or castes
    • not capable of being obtained; inaccessible, unobtainable, unprocurable

      a rare work, today almost inaccessible

      timber is virtually unobtainable in the islands

      untouchable resources buried deep within the earth