untouchable
UKʌntʌtʃəbl
USən'tʌtʃəbəl
معنی فارسی
غير قابل دست زدن، دست نزدني، نابسودني،
لمس نکردني
آدم نجس، ناپاکزاده
معنی کامل و مثالها
/un tuch´ǝ bǝl/adj., n.
● غیر قابل دست زدن، دست نزدنی، نابسودنی، لمس نکردنی
● (در هند) آدم نجس، ناپاکزاده
ریشه و کاربرد
ریشه
From un- + touchable, attested since the 16th century. The sense of a socially outcast person is from 1909.
مثال
- The priceless artifacts were untouchable.
- As a CEO, he seemed untouchable.
- Untouchables were often subjected to severe discrimination.
ترکیبهای رایج
untouchable subject untouchable status untouchable caste untouchable person untouchable power
تعریف انگلیسی
adjective
- beyond the reach of criticism or attack or impeachment “for the first time criticism was directed at a hitherto untouchable target"- Newsweek”
- 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”