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mune

mune adjective: not immune; subject or vulnerable to (something).

Adjective

mune (not comparable)

  1. (humorous, informal, proscribed) Not immune; subject or vulnerable to (something).
    • You know, of course, that the writer of the book is immune to shame—that only the peddler of said book is mune—and, I must say that the most shameful person or persons involved are those that condone—such as Mr. Rexroth[…]2003, Gregory Corso, An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters of Gregory Corso, New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 44
    • Mac: But no matter what she does, they don't mind. It's like they're immune. Bloo: Well, we'll just have to make them mune by any means necessary.2005, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, "Duchess of Wails" (season 3, episode 5)

Noun capitalized: MUNE

MUNE (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of motor unit number estimation.

Origin of mune

Formed under the implication that the word immune was formed in modern English with the prefix im- and another word. The word immune was actually formed from a prefix in Latin immūnis (“exempt from public service”), from in- (“not”) + mūnus (“service”).

Questions about mune

What does mune mean?
Mune means not immune; subject or vulnerable to (something).
What part of speech is mune?
Mune can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near mune in the dictionary

  1. Munduruku
  2. Mundurukus
  3. mundus
  4. Mundy
  5. Mundys
  6. mune
  7. Muneko
  8. munerary
  9. munerate
  10. munerated
  11. munerates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mune (page history and authors); MUNE (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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