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say it: i-MYOON
immune is an adjective and noun meaning "relating to the condition of immunity". It is pronounced /ˌɪˈmjun/ — i-MYOON. It carries 5 recorded senses.
relating to the condition of immunity
“the immune system”
secure against
“immune from taxation as long as he resided in Bermuda”
“immune from criminal prosecution”
relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection)
(usually followed by `to') not affected by a given influence
“immune to persuasion”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for immune come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.