untouchables
India's lowest caste
Untouchables refers to people beyond reach or consequence—either protected from accountability The CEO's inner circle were untouchables or excluded from normal society.
The term historically designated the lowest caste in India's social hierarchy, considered so impure that contact with them polluted others.
That usage is now considered offensive; Dalit is preferred.
In American culture, the Untouchables were federal agents who fought organized crime during Prohibition, so called because they couldn't be bribed.
Rejected, shunned person
- ostracizedExcluded from a group
- shunnedPersistently avoided socially
- excludedShut out, denied entry
- marginalizedPushed to society's edges
rejected · banished · alienated · forsaken · leper · blacklisted · exiled · excommunicated
Rejected, shunned person
- scheduledArranged for specific time
- varnaHindu hereditary social order
- casteismBias by hereditary social class
- reservationAdvance arrangement to hold
purity · impurity · segregation · discrimination · oppression · marginalization · inequality · stigma
Not allowed
- off-limitsProhibited from access
- unmentionableToo shameful to discuss
- unspeakableBeyond verbal expression
- verbotenProhibited by authority
proscribed · sacrilege · defilement · impure · polluted · contaminated · defiled · avoidance
Quality-forming word ending
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- gangsterCriminal organization member
- bootleggingIllegal alcohol production/sale
- 1987Late twentieth-century year
pariah
Rejected, shunned person
- ostracizedExcluded from a group
- shunnedPersistently avoided socially
- excludedShut out, denied entry
marginalized · rejected · banished · alienated · forsaken · leper · blacklisted · exiled · excommunicated · disowned
pariah
Rejected, shunned person
- scheduledArranged for specific time
- varnaHindu hereditary social order
- casteismBias by hereditary social class
reservation · purity · impurity · segregation · discrimination · oppression · marginalization · inequality · stigma · exclusion
forbidden
Not allowed
- off-limitsProhibited from access
- unmentionableToo shameful to discuss
- unspeakableBeyond verbal expression
verboten · proscribed · sacrilege · defilement · impure · polluted · contaminated · defiled · avoidance · segregated
ness
Quality-forming word ending
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- gangsterCriminal organization member
- bootleggingIllegal alcohol production/sale
- outcastsoutcast, pariah, pariahs, outcasts, outlaws
- outsidersoutcast, outsider, outcasts, pariah, misfit
- GandhiMahatma Gandhi, satyagraha, ahimsa, nonviolence, khadi
- Persecuted GroupsJews, Romani, Roma, Armenians, Rohingya
- social hierarchycaste system, caste, class, class system, ranks
- social strataclass, caste, upper class, middle class, lower class
untouchablesBrahmins
Hindu priestly caste
nobility · aristocracy · elites · ruling class · high-born
- The UntouchablesUnbribable law enforcement team