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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

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, untouchable]
    3: forbidden to the touch; "in most museums such articles are
       untouchable"
    4: ( especially used in traditional Hindu belief of the lowest
       caste or castes) defiling
    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,
       untouchable]
    n 1: belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India [syn:
         untouchable, Harijan]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Untouchable \Untouchable\
   See touchable.

Thesaurus Results for untouchable:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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