untouchableadj.n.

Brit.

/(ˌ)ʌnˈtʌtʃəbl/, U.S.

/ˌənˈtətʃəb(ə)l/

Etymology: un- prefix¹ 1b.

A. adj.

a. Incapable of being touched; immaterial.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [adjective] > not perceptible by the senses or beyond the senses

unsensiblec1380

insensible1509

imperceptible1536

ungropable1558

untouchable1567

unfeelable1609

unsensive1616

intactible1623

intangible1640

supersensual1647

intactile1660

supersensitive1701

touchless1767

supersensible1795

untangible1816

insensile1822

ungraspable1822

suprasensitive1825

suprasensible1831

suprasensuous1838

subsensual1840

unsensuous1850

supersensational1853

insensuousa1861

1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. 239 Theophylacte saithe, The Body of Christe is Eaten; but the Godheade is not Eaten: bicause it is vntoucheable, and vncomprehensible vnto our senses.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Immateriel,..impalpable, vntouchable.

absolute.1833 S. Austin Characteristics Goethe I. 185 Differentializing the Unchangeable and Untouchable.

b. Beyond the reach of touch.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adjective] > remote or inaccessible

outc1425

inaccessible?a1475

out-way1532

deviate1575

unaccessible1596

reachless1597

devious1599

wandering1600

untouchable1622

outlying1651

back1683

no-nationa1756

out-of-the-way1756

outlandish1792

eccentric1800

outworld1808

out-by1816

outside1847

off-lying1859

unget-at-able1862

far-out1887

far-back1900

1622 G. Goodman Creatures praysing God 33 The vntouchable height of his [sc. God's] glory.

1886 J. Parker Apostolic Life II. 169 With the heavens above it, hell below it, an untouchable horizon round about it.

1890 H. Caine Bondman iii. i Seas beneath of an untouchable depth.

c. figurative. Unapproachable, unrivalled.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [adjective] > incomparable, unparalleled, or unique

unilicheOE

makelessc1225

unevenlyc1230

peerlessc1330

alonea1382

uncomparablea1382

unoverpassablea1382

solea1398

incomparable1412

sans-peer1426

nonpareilc1450

invincible1509

matchless1530

inimitable1531

unmatchable1544

unmatched1548

unpassable1563

alonely1567

inequivalent1568

mateless1570

unparagonized1578

only1581

fellowlessa1586

unimitablea1586

compareless1590

incompared1590

immatchless1595

unequalized1596

nonsuch1598

paragonless1599

immatchable1601

unparalleled1601

uncompeered1602

unpeered1602

imparalleled1604

unpeerable1604

unrivalled1607

uncompanioned1608

unexampled1610

unsurmountable1611

unsurpassable1611

unparagoned1612

patternless1613

unpatterned1617

unique1618

unparallelable1621

parallelless1622

unmatchless1623

single1633

unexemplifieda1634

unsampleda1638

unequalled1639

imparallel1641

unparallel1645

unseconded1646

unexemplary1649

unaccessional1651

unequalable1659

uncome-at-able1694

rivalless1735

untouched1735

unexcelleda1800

unexceeded1813

sans-pareilly1818

unsurpassed1818

unrivallable1823

unapproachable1834

untranscendeda1849

insuperable1849

unbrothered1853

unapproached1856

insurpassable1859

untouchable1867

hors concours1884

1867 E. Yates Forlorn Hope II. iii. 56 A worthy woman, untouchable in Mangnall, devoted to the backboard.

1884 E. Yates Recoll. & Experiences I. 189 In his day untouchable as a romantic actor.

a. Exempt from touch; that one may not touch.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [adjective] > that may not be interfered with

untouchable1607

noli me tangere1790

1607 S. Collins Serm. Paules-Crosse 46 Euery mans conscience is as free and as vntouchable as anothers before God, one price was paid for all.

1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (James iii. 7) Sons of Belial, untamable, untractable, untouchable.

1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 327 Were not their Persons Sacred, that is, by the Laws of God and Man, untouchable as to prejudice.

1737 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 35/1 Her Majesty's Foot hitch'd in the Stirrup, and the Horse dragg'd her along.., but the untouchable Foot retain'd the grave Spaniards from intermedling in so delicate an Affair.

1879 J. Hingston Austral. Abroad ix. 101 The graves..are held as sacred and untouchable by the present owners.

b. spec. That cannot legally be interfered with or made use of.

ΚΠ

1734 J. Swift in M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) I. 524 I hope the young lady has an untouchable settlement.

1815 Zeluca I. 263 Your own untouchable property.

1874 W. R. Greg Rocks Ahead 45 Declaring this peasant's farm inalienable,..untouchable for any debt.

3. Too bad, unpleasant, defiling, etc., to touch. spec. of Hindus: see sense B.; also transferred from this sense.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > [adjective] > disgusting or repulsive

fulsomec1510

distasteful1607

stinkardly1616

reluctant1663

disgustful1678

fulsamic1694

disgusteda1716

disgustive1740

revolting1773

disgustable1787

repulsive1791

disgusting1839

foul1842

vomitorial1868

untouchable1873

icky1938

gross1959

grody1965

yechy1969

yucky1970

yuck1971

yuck-making1972

gross-out1973

skeevy1976

sleazoid1976

skanky1982

festy1995

mug2009

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [adjective] > belonging to low Hindu caste > specific

untouchable1909

1873 A. D. Whitney Other Girls x. 148 Fried potatoes, or whatever else was economical and untouchable.

1909 Indian Spectator 23 Oct. 843/2 Persons in mourning are..considered to be defiled and untouchable for some days.

1910 Times 29 July 5/6 In non-essentials Brahmanism soon found it expedient to relax the rigour of caste obligations, as for instance to..travel even in their own country in railways..without incurring the pollution of bodily contact with the ‘untouchable’ castes.

1943 G. Muff Let. in Times 8 July 5/5 There was a gulf between the public school and the elementary school—a caste system; when all the while we knew the child of the worker was neither ‘untouchable’ nor belonged to a depressed class.

1963 T. Morris & P. Morris Pentonville ii. 27 The work of the general work cleaners is of ‘untouchable’ status and is frequently given to the Maltese and ‘blacks’ for this reason.

1979 A. Brink Dry White Season iii. vii. 237 He is untouchable, protected by the entire bulwark of his formidable system.

B. n.

A Hindu of a hereditary low caste, contact with whom was regarded as defiling members of higher castes. Also transferred and figurative. Cf. Harijan n.Use of the term, and the social restrictions which accompany it, were declared illegal in the constitution adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India in 1949 and of Pakistan in 1953.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [noun] > member of any low Hindu caste > member of specific low Hindu caste

Kunbi1598

pariah1613

Shudra1630

Vaishya1665

chuckler1759

bhangi1823

Kori1839

Mahar1855

sweeper1859

Kola1873

Sansi1882

Panchama1893

untouchable1909

Harijan1931

Scheduled Caste1935

Dalit1948

Scheduled Tribe1957

1909 Indian Spectator 23 Oct. 843/2 Our untouchables were not clean.

1911 Times 2 Feb. 5/5 When it is remembered in what manner the lower classes are treated in daily life it may appear strange that the higher castes should be so..alarmed at the prospect of the untouchables ceasing to be regarded as Hindus.

1920 Asiatic Review 16 172 The term ‘untouchable’, as a name for the ‘depressed classes’, or ‘outcastes’, is a revival of the most ancient designation of these people.

1921 Daily Tel. 1 Mar. 11 The so-called ‘untouchables’.

1927 A. M. Carr-Saunders & D. C. Jones Surv. Social Struct. Eng. & Wales 142 Under such a régime the ‘untouchables’ at one end of the scale perform the menial services, and to the sons of the ‘untouchables’ no other career is open.

1928 Daily Express 22 May 10/2 Those in Whitehall may go on thinking there is something extremely meritorious in treating Russia as a diplomatic untouchable.

1931 M. K. Gandhi Bleeding Wound (1932) ix. 40 Only the other day a friend suggested to me that the word Harijana (man of God) be substituted for the word ‘antyaja’ (the ‘lastborn’) that is being used for ‘untouchables’... I am delighted to adopt that word.

1960 A. Koestler Lotus & Robot ii. vi. 176 The eta—the sweepers, scavengers and tanners—ceased to be untouchables.

1969 Daily Tel. 6 Mar. 16/5 The continuation of a practice in Japan..which permits 3,000,000 people known as ‘eta’ or ‘the untouchables’ to live in 6,000 outcast hamlets isolated from the people by centuries-old discrimination.

1975 Guardian 27 Jan. 5 Five hundred Untouchables—low caste Indians—marched on Downing Street yesterday.

1978 N. J. Crisp London Deal vi. 104 ‘Well, I've become a non-copper.’ ‘You mean you've been suspended?’.. ‘A modern untouchable.’

1981 G. Priestland Priestland's Progress vi. 93 The Indian untouchable who becomes a Christian often has to pay a heavy price for his liberation.

Derivatives

unˈtouchableness n. the state or condition of being untouchable.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [noun] > lack of affability

strangenessc1386

unhomelinessc1440

fremdnessa1500

coldness1557

coolnessa1586

self-guarda1586

diskindness1596

formality1599

reservedness1606

inaffability1611

restrainta1616

unconess1637

chillness1639

froideur1645

distance1660

starchedness1670

buckram1682

starchness?1693

starch1694

reserve1711

stiffness1717

unapproachableness1727

retirement1803

angularity1824

standoffishness1826

distancy1836

chill1837

starchiness1844

unapproachability1846

hedgehogginess1858

standoff1865

offishness1867

aloofness1878

pokerishness1880

untouchableness1909

untouchability1919

stuffiness1926

untouchableness1909

untouchability1919

1909 Times of India 23 Oct. (Mail ed.) 19/3 The Hon. Mr. Ghokale..thought if only the untouchableness went, it would be a comparatively easy matter to help these classes.

1916 Indian Review Feb. in M. K. Gandhi Coll. Works (1964) XIII. 232 This miserable, wretched, enslaving spirit of ‘untouchableness’.

1970 Daily Tel. 7 Feb. 9/6 It [sc. Verdi's ‘Macbeth’]..had to overcome our strong proprietorial feelings about the untouchableness of Shakespeare.

Draft additions 1993

unˈtouchably adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > safety > [adverb] > invulnerably

impregnably1602

inexpugnably1653

impassibly1677

invulnerably1847

unassailably1874

charmedly1876

untouchably1909

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [adverb]

untouchably1909

1909 S. V. Ketkar Hist. Caste in India I. v. 86 The Mahār caste, which is a large but untouchably low caste.

1986 J. Viorst Necessary Losses iv. 51 The happy illusion of being untouchably safe.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	untouchable
释义	untouchableadj.n. Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈtʌtʃəbl/, U.S. /ˌənˈtətʃəb(ə)l/ Etymology: un- prefix¹ 1b. A. adj. 1. a. Incapable of being touched; immaterial. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [adjective] > not perceptible by the senses or beyond the senses unsensiblec1380 insensible1509 imperceptible1536 ungropable1558 untouchable1567 unfeelable1609 unsensive1616 intactible1623 intangible1640 supersensual1647 intactile1660 supersensitive1701 touchless1767 supersensible1795 untangible1816 insensile1822 ungraspable1822 suprasensitive1825 suprasensible1831 suprasensuous1838 subsensual1840 unsensuous1850 supersensational1853 insensuousa1861 1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. 239 Theophylacte saithe, The Body of Christe is Eaten; but the Godheade is not Eaten: bicause it is vntoucheable, and vncomprehensible vnto our senses. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Immateriel,..impalpable, vntouchable. absolute.1833 S. Austin Characteristics Goethe I. 185 Differentializing the Unchangeable and Untouchable. b. Beyond the reach of touch. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adjective] > remote or inaccessible outc1425 inaccessible?a1475 out-way1532 deviate1575 unaccessible1596 reachless1597 devious1599 wandering1600 untouchable1622 outlying1651 back1683 no-nationa1756 out-of-the-way1756 outlandish1792 eccentric1800 outworld1808 out-by1816 outside1847 off-lying1859 unget-at-able1862 far-out1887 far-back1900 1622 G. Goodman Creatures praysing God 33 The vntouchable height of his [sc. God's] glory. 1886 J. Parker Apostolic Life II. 169 With the heavens above it, hell below it, an untouchable horizon round about it. 1890 H. Caine Bondman iii. i Seas beneath of an untouchable depth. c. figurative. Unapproachable, unrivalled. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [adjective] > incomparable, unparalleled, or unique unilicheOE makelessc1225 unevenlyc1230 peerlessc1330 alonea1382 uncomparablea1382 unoverpassablea1382 solea1398 incomparable1412 sans-peer1426 nonpareilc1450 invincible1509 matchless1530 inimitable1531 unmatchable1544 unmatched1548 unpassable1563 alonely1567 inequivalent1568 mateless1570 unparagonized1578 only1581 fellowlessa1586 unimitablea1586 compareless1590 incompared1590 immatchless1595 unequalized1596 nonsuch1598 paragonless1599 immatchable1601 unparalleled1601 uncompeered1602 unpeered1602 imparalleled1604 unpeerable1604 unrivalled1607 uncompanioned1608 unexampled1610 unsurmountable1611 unsurpassable1611 unparagoned1612 patternless1613 unpatterned1617 unique1618 unparallelable1621 parallelless1622 unmatchless1623 single1633 unexemplifieda1634 unsampleda1638 unequalled1639 imparallel1641 unparallel1645 unseconded1646 unexemplary1649 unaccessional1651 unequalable1659 uncome-at-able1694 rivalless1735 untouched1735 unexcelleda1800 unexceeded1813 sans-pareilly1818 unsurpassed1818 unrivallable1823 unapproachable1834 untranscendeda1849 insuperable1849 unbrothered1853 unapproached1856 insurpassable1859 untouchable1867 hors concours1884 1867 E. Yates Forlorn Hope II. iii. 56 A worthy woman, untouchable in Mangnall, devoted to the backboard. 1884 E. Yates Recoll. & Experiences I. 189 In his day untouchable as a romantic actor. 2. a. Exempt from touch; that one may not touch. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [adjective] > that may not be interfered with untouchable1607 noli me tangere1790 1607 S. Collins Serm. Paules-Crosse 46 Euery mans conscience is as free and as vntouchable as anothers before God, one price was paid for all. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (James iii. 7) Sons of Belial, untamable, untractable, untouchable. 1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 327 Were not their Persons Sacred, that is, by the Laws of God and Man, untouchable as to prejudice. 1737 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 35/1 Her Majesty's Foot hitch'd in the Stirrup, and the Horse dragg'd her along.., but the untouchable Foot retain'd the grave Spaniards from intermedling in so delicate an Affair. 1879 J. Hingston Austral. Abroad ix. 101 The graves..are held as sacred and untouchable by the present owners. b. spec. That cannot legally be interfered with or made use of. ΚΠ 1734 J. Swift in M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) I. 524 I hope the young lady has an untouchable settlement. 1815 Zeluca I. 263 Your own untouchable property. 1874 W. R. Greg Rocks Ahead 45 Declaring this peasant's farm inalienable,..untouchable for any debt. 3. Too bad, unpleasant, defiling, etc., to touch. spec. of Hindus: see sense B.; also transferred from this sense. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > [adjective] > disgusting or repulsive fulsomec1510 distasteful1607 stinkardly1616 reluctant1663 disgustful1678 fulsamic1694 disgusteda1716 disgustive1740 revolting1773 disgustable1787 repulsive1791 disgusting1839 foul1842 vomitorial1868 untouchable1873 icky1938 gross1959 grody1965 yechy1969 yucky1970 yuck1971 yuck-making1972 gross-out1973 skeevy1976 sleazoid1976 skanky1982 festy1995 mug2009 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [adjective] > belonging to low Hindu caste > specific untouchable1909 1873 A. D. Whitney Other Girls x. 148 Fried potatoes, or whatever else was economical and untouchable. 1909 Indian Spectator 23 Oct. 843/2 Persons in mourning are..considered to be defiled and untouchable for some days. 1910 Times 29 July 5/6 In non-essentials Brahmanism soon found it expedient to relax the rigour of caste obligations, as for instance to..travel even in their own country in railways..without incurring the pollution of bodily contact with the ‘untouchable’ castes. 1943 G. Muff Let. in Times 8 July 5/5 There was a gulf between the public school and the elementary school—a caste system; when all the while we knew the child of the worker was neither ‘untouchable’ nor belonged to a depressed class. 1963 T. Morris & P. Morris Pentonville ii. 27 The work of the general work cleaners is of ‘untouchable’ status and is frequently given to the Maltese and ‘blacks’ for this reason. 1979 A. Brink Dry White Season iii. vii. 237 He is untouchable, protected by the entire bulwark of his formidable system. B. n. A Hindu of a hereditary low caste, contact with whom was regarded as defiling members of higher castes. Also transferred and figurative. Cf. Harijan n.Use of the term, and the social restrictions which accompany it, were declared illegal in the constitution adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India in 1949 and of Pakistan in 1953. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [noun] > member of any low Hindu caste > member of specific low Hindu caste Kunbi1598 pariah1613 Shudra1630 Vaishya1665 chuckler1759 bhangi1823 Kori1839 Mahar1855 sweeper1859 Kola1873 Sansi1882 Panchama1893 untouchable1909 Harijan1931 Scheduled Caste1935 Dalit1948 Scheduled Tribe1957 1909 Indian Spectator 23 Oct. 843/2 Our untouchables were not clean. 1911 Times 2 Feb. 5/5 When it is remembered in what manner the lower classes are treated in daily life it may appear strange that the higher castes should be so..alarmed at the prospect of the untouchables ceasing to be regarded as Hindus. 1920 Asiatic Review 16 172 The term ‘untouchable’, as a name for the ‘depressed classes’, or ‘outcastes’, is a revival of the most ancient designation of these people. 1921 Daily Tel. 1 Mar. 11 The so-called ‘untouchables’. 1927 A. M. Carr-Saunders & D. C. Jones Surv. Social Struct. Eng. & Wales 142 Under such a régime the ‘untouchables’ at one end of the scale perform the menial services, and to the sons of the ‘untouchables’ no other career is open. 1928 Daily Express 22 May 10/2 Those in Whitehall may go on thinking there is something extremely meritorious in treating Russia as a diplomatic untouchable. 1931 M. K. Gandhi Bleeding Wound (1932) ix. 40 Only the other day a friend suggested to me that the word Harijana (man of God) be substituted for the word ‘antyaja’ (the ‘lastborn’) that is being used for ‘untouchables’... I am delighted to adopt that word. 1960 A. Koestler Lotus & Robot ii. vi. 176 The eta—the sweepers, scavengers and tanners—ceased to be untouchables. 1969 Daily Tel. 6 Mar. 16/5 The continuation of a practice in Japan..which permits 3,000,000 people known as ‘eta’ or ‘the untouchables’ to live in 6,000 outcast hamlets isolated from the people by centuries-old discrimination. 1975 Guardian 27 Jan. 5 Five hundred Untouchables—low caste Indians—marched on Downing Street yesterday. 1978 N. J. Crisp London Deal vi. 104 ‘Well, I've become a non-copper.’ ‘You mean you've been suspended?’.. ‘A modern untouchable.’ 1981 G. Priestland Priestland's Progress vi. 93 The Indian untouchable who becomes a Christian often has to pay a heavy price for his liberation. Derivatives unˈtouchableness n. the state or condition of being untouchable. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [noun] > lack of affability strangenessc1386 unhomelinessc1440 fremdnessa1500 coldness1557 coolnessa1586 self-guarda1586 diskindness1596 formality1599 reservedness1606 inaffability1611 restrainta1616 unconess1637 chillness1639 froideur1645 distance1660 starchedness1670 buckram1682 starchness?1693 starch1694 reserve1711 stiffness1717 unapproachableness1727 retirement1803 angularity1824 standoffishness1826 distancy1836 chill1837 starchiness1844 unapproachability1846 hedgehogginess1858 standoff1865 offishness1867 aloofness1878 pokerishness1880 untouchableness1909 untouchability1919 stuffiness1926 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [noun] > member of any low Hindu caste > member of specific low Hindu caste > quality or condition of untouchableness1909 untouchability1919 1909 Times of India 23 Oct. (Mail ed.) 19/3 The Hon. Mr. Ghokale..thought if only the untouchableness went, it would be a comparatively easy matter to help these classes. 1916 Indian Review Feb. in M. K. Gandhi Coll. Works (1964) XIII. 232 This miserable, wretched, enslaving spirit of ‘untouchableness’. 1970 Daily Tel. 7 Feb. 9/6 It [sc. Verdi's ‘Macbeth’]..had to overcome our strong proprietorial feelings about the untouchableness of Shakespeare. Draft additions 1993 unˈtouchably adv. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > [adverb] > invulnerably impregnably1602 inexpugnably1653 impassibly1677 invulnerably1847 unassailably1874 charmedly1876 untouchably1909 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [adverb] untouchably1909 1909 S. V. Ketkar Hist. Caste in India I. v. 86 The Mahār caste, which is a large but untouchably low caste. 1986 J. Viorst Necessary Losses iv. 51 The happy illusion of being untouchably safe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1567
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