untouchable
/ʌnˈtʌtʃəbəl/
untouchable adjective: not able to be touched.
Adjective
untouchable (comparative more untouchable, superlative most untouchable)
- Not able to be touched.
- Sunday’s election is the first to be held after youth-led mass protests in 2020 shocked the establishment by […] criticising an institution previously considered untouchable.2023 May 14, Rebecca Ratcliffe, Thitipol Panyalimpanun, “Opposition parties take lead in Thai election”, in The Guardian
- Not able to be defeated or bested.
- The Minnesota Vikings have been untouchable this year as they've won their sixth consecutive game.
Noun
untouchable (plural untouchables)
- A criminal who is so well-connected that they cannot be harmed.
- Synonym of outcast: a person excluded from society.
- Synonyms:
- outcast
- A member of the lowest and most discriminated caste in traditional Indian society.
- Synonyms:
- Dalit, pariah, undesirable
- A law enforcement agent immune to intimidation, bribery, or seduction.
untouchable meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
untouchable in Hindi
- member of the lowest caste
- अछूत achūt, अस्पृश्य aspṛshya
untouchable in Tamil
- member of the lowest caste
- பறையன் paṟaiyaṉ
untouchable in Marathi
- अस्पृश्य
untouchable in Urdu
- member of the lowest caste
- چنڈال
More languagesFewer languages
- untouchable in Bengali
- অস্পৃশ্য, অস্পৃশ্য়
- untouchable in Telugu
- అంటరాని aṇṭarāni, అంటరానివాడు aṇṭarānivāḍu
- untouchable in Malayalam
- പറയൻ paṟayaṉ
- untouchable in Kannada
- ಮುಟ್ಟುಪಡು, ಮುಟ್ಟುಪಡ
- untouchable in Gujarati
- અસ્પૃશ્ય aspŕśya, અછૂત achūt
- untouchable in Odia
- ଅସ୍ପୃଶ୍ଯ
- untouchable in Sanskrit
- अस्पृश्य aspṛśyā, चण्डाल caṇḍāla
- untouchable in Nepali
- अछूत
- untouchable in Indonesian
- paria
Examples of untouchable in a sentence
- The nail unit is no longer regarded as untouchable or an appendage to be ignored.
- The kind of untouchable hot guy at every high school without fail.
- He'd been untouchable for the past decade, but now Roy Grace had finally banged him to rights.
Synonyms of untouchable
Forms of untouchable
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more untouchable |
| superlative | most untouchable |
| Noun | |
| plural | untouchables |
Origin of untouchable
From un- + touchable.
Words formed from untouchable
Phrases with untouchable
Questions about untouchable
- What does untouchable mean?
- Untouchable means not able to be touched.
- What is untouchable in Hindi?
- Untouchable in Hindi is अछूत (achūt), अस्पृश्य (aspṛshya). See Untouchable meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is untouchable?
- Untouchable can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce untouchable?
- Untouchable is pronounced /ʌnˈtʌtʃəbəl/.
Words near untouchable in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: untouchable (page history and authors); untouchable (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); untouchable (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); untouchable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); અછૂત (Gujarati) (page history and authors); untouchable (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); untouchable (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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