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untolerable | untomb | untongue | untooth | untoothed | untouchable | untouched | untoughened | untoward | untowardly | untraceable

untouchable

 : 
Adjective, Noun
 : 
un=touch=a=ble

OXFORD DICTIONARY

untouchable, adj. & n.
--adj. that may not or cannot be touched.
--n. a member of a hereditary Hindu group held to defile members of higher castes on contact.

Usage
Use of the term, and social restrictions accompanying it, were declared illegal under the Indian constitution in 1949.
Derivative
untouchability n. untouchableness n.

THESAURUS

untouchable

DP, Ishmael, affectless, anesthetized, antipodean, arctic, autistic, awesome, awful, back of beyond, banned, barred, blunt, castaway, catatonic, chill, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, contraband, cool, declasse, derelict, dispassionate, displaced person, divine, drugged, dull, emotionally dead, emotionless, evictee, exile, expatriate, expellee, forbade, forbid, forbidden, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, godforsaken, heartless, heavenly, holy, hyperborean, icy, illegal, illicit, immovable, impassible, impassive, inaccessible, ineffable, inenarrable, inexcitable, inexpressible, insusceptible, inviolable, inviolate, leper, nonemotional, nonpermissible, not permitted, numinous, objective, obtuse, off limits, out of bounds, out of reach, out of touch, out-of-the-way, outcast, outcast of society, outcaste, outlaw, outlawed, outsider, pariah, passionless, persona non grata, prohibited, religious, ruled out, sacred, sacrosanct, self-absorbed, social outcast, soulless, spiritless, spiritual, taboo, tabooed, unacceptable person, unaffectionate, unallowed, unapproachable, unauthorized, under the ban, undesirable, unemotional, unfeeling, ungetatable, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unlawful, unlicensed, unloving, unpassionate, unpermissible, unresponding, unresponsive, unsanctioned, unspeakable, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, unutterable, venerable, verboten, vetoed

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