Meaning

4 senses
  1. A criminal who is so well-connected that they cannot be harmed.

  2. Synonym of outcast: a person excluded from society.

  3. (India)A member of the lowest and most discriminated caste in traditional Indian society.

    Unberührbarer m Paria

    па́рияpárija

  4. A law enforcement agent immune to intimidation, bribery, or seduction.

More definitions
  • belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India

Examples

8 sentences
  1. The dignity of man is untouchable.

  2. He believes his status makes him untouchable.

  3. The dignity of human beings is untouchable.

  4. The president is some sort of an untouchable figure domestically.

  5. Certain taboos, which had remained untouchable for so many years, have come to be broken.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
member of the lowest caste:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
member of the lowest caste:

Forms

plural: untouchables
Singularuntouchable
Pluraluntouchables

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
member of the lowest Indian caste:Dalitpariahundesirable

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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