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say it: uhn-TUHCH-uh-buhl
untouchable is an adjective and noun meaning "beyond the reach of criticism or attack or impeachment". It is pronounced /ənˈtʌtʃəbəl/ — uhn-TUHCH-uh-buhl. It carries 6 recorded senses.
beyond the reach of criticism or attack or impeachment
“for the first time criticism was directed at a hitherto untouchable target”
impossible to assail
forbidden to the touch
“in most museums such articles are untouchable”
(especially used in traditional Hindu belief of the lowest caste or castes) defiling
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”
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 untouchable 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.