untouchable

1. 1.

   beyond the reach of criticism or attack or impeachment

   “for the first time criticism was directed at a hitherto untouchable target”

   Similarinvulnerable
2. 2.

   impossible to assail

   Synonymsunassailable

   Similarinviolable
3. 3.

   forbidden to the touch

   “in most museums such articles are untouchable”

   Similarimpermissible
4. 4.

   (especially used in traditional Hindu belief of the lowest caste or castes) defiling

   Similarunclean
5. 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”

   Synonymsinaccessibleunobtainableunprocurable

   Similarunavailable

1. 1.

   belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India

   SynonymsHarijan

   Broaderoutcast

Other forms of untouchable

plural

untouchables·

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.

Questions about untouchable

What does untouchable mean?

untouchable means "beyond the reach of criticism or attack or impeachment". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in untouchable?

untouchable has 4 syllables: un-touc-ha-ble. The stress falls on "touc". In IPA it is /ənˈtʌtʃəbəl/.

What is another word for untouchable?

Close synonyms include unassailable, inaccessible, unobtainable, unprocurable, Harijan. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is untouchable a common word?

untouchable is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with untouchable?

1 word rhymes with untouchable. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.