untouchable

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ touchable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈtʌtʃəbəl/

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Adjective

untouchable (comparative more untouchable, superlative most untouchable)

1. Not able to be touched.
   • 2023 May 14, Rebecca Ratcliffe, Thitipol Panyalimpanun, “Opposition parties take lead in Thai election”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Sunday’s election is the first to be held after youth-led mass protests in 2020 shocked the establishment by […] criticising an institution previously considered untouchable.

2. Not able to be defeated or bested.

   The Minnesota Vikings have been untouchable this year as they've won their sixth consecutive game.

Derived terms

• untouchability
• untouchableness
• untouchable number

Translations

not able to be touched

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: недосега̀ем (bg) (nedosegàem), неприкосновѐн (bg) (neprikosnovèn)
• Catalan: intocable
• Esperanto: netuŝebla
• Finnish: koskematon (fi)
• French: intouchable (fr)
• German: unantastbar (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἀθίγγανος m (athínganos)

• Hungarian: érinthetetlen (hu)
• Italian: intoccabile (it)
• Polish: niedotykalny
• Portuguese: intocável (pt) m or f
• Russian: неприкаса́емый (ru) (neprikasájemyj), неприкоснове́нный (ru) (neprikosnovénnyj) (sacrosanct)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: недодѝрљив

  Roman: nedodìrljiv (sh)

• Spanish: intocable (es)
• Swedish: oantastlig (sv) (figuratively)
• Telugu: అంటరాని (aṇṭarāni)
• Welsh: anghyffyrddadwy

Noun

untouchable (plural untouchables)

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

Synonyms

• (member of the lowest Indian caste): Dalit, pariah, undesirable (noun)

Translations

criminal

• Bulgarian: недосегаем (bg) m (nedosegaem)
• Greek: παρίας (el) m (parías)
• Hungarian: érinthetetlen (hu)
• Spanish: intocable (es) m or f

member of the lowest caste

• Arabic:

  Yemeni Arabic: المهمشين (al-Muhamashīn)

• Catalan: pària m or f, intocable m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Estonian: paaria (et)
• Finnish: kastiton, koskematon (fi), paaria (fi), hylkiö (fi)
• French: intouchable (fr) m or f, paria (fr) m or f
• German: Unberührbarer m Paria (de) m
• Greek: παρίας (el) m (parías)
• Hindi: अछूत (hi) (achūt)
• Hungarian: érinthetetlen (hu)
• Ido: paria (io)
• Indonesian: paria (id)
• Irish: duine seachanta m
• Japanese: パーリア (pāria), パーリヤ (pāriya), 不可触民 (ja) (ふかしょくみん, fukashokumin), 部落民 (Burakumin)
• Korean: 백정 (ko) (baekjeong)
• Malayalam: പറയൻ (ml) (paṟayaṉ)
• Polish: parias (pl) m
• Portuguese: pária (pt) m or f, pariá m or f
• Romanian: paria (ro) m
• Russian: па́рия (ru) m or f (párija)
• Spanish: paria (es) m or f, intocable (es) m or f
• Tamil: பறையன் (ta) (paṟaiyaṉ)
• Telugu: అంటరానివాడు (aṇṭarānivāḍu)
• Tibetan: ragyabpa
• Urdu: چنڈال

incorruptible law enforcement agent

• Finnish: lahjomaton (fi)
• Greek: αδιάφθορος (el) m (adiáfthoros)