untouchable Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. noun belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India
   Harijan.
   
2. adjective satellite beyond the reach of criticism or attack or impeachment
   
   • for the first time criticism was directed at a hitherto untouchable target"- Newsweek
3. adjective satellite impossible to assail
   unassailable.
   
4. adjective satellite forbidden to the touch
   
   • in most museums such articles are untouchable
5. adjective satellite ( especially used in traditional Hindu belief of the lowest caste or castes) defiling
   
6. adjective satellite not capable of being obtained
   inaccessible; unprocurable; unobtainable.
   
   • a rare work, today almost inaccessible
   • timber is virtually unobtainable in the islands
   • untouchable resources buried deep within the earth

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