adj
Meaning 1
Exempt; not subject to.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: usually
Examples
- As a diplomat, you are immune from prosecution.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
immune
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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adj
Meaning 2
Protected by inoculation, or due to innate resistance to pathogens.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: usually
Topics: medicine, sciences
Examples
- I am immune to chicken pox.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Not vulnerable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Examples
- Alas, he was immune to my charms.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Of or pertaining to immunity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
Examples
- immune system
- We examined the patient's immune response.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A person who is not susceptible to infection by a particular disease
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: epidemiology, medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To make immune.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 7
relating to the condition of immunity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the immune system
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 8
(usually followed by `to') not affected by a given influence
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- immune to persuasion
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 9
relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: resistant
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 10
secure against
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- immune from taxation as long as he resided in Bermuda
- immune from criminal prosecution
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 11
a person who is immune to a particular infection
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
Narrower terms: carrier, immune carrier
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey- Proto-Indo-European *moy-nósder. Proto-Italic *moinos Latin mūnus Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-ih2der.? Proto-Italic *-is Latin -is Latin in- -is Latin immūnisder. Middle French immunbor. Middle English English immune From Middle English, from Middle French immun, from Latin immūnis (“exempt from public service”), from in- (“not”) + mūnus (“service”).
Across languages
Translations
57 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Azerbaijani: toxunulmaz — exempt from inclusion
- Bulgarian: освободен от (osvoboden ot) — exempt from inclusion
- Catalan: immune — exempt from inclusion
- Finnish: koskematon — exempt from inclusion
- Finnish: immuuni — exempt from inclusion
- Malay: imun — exempt from inclusion
- Persian: مصون (masun) — exempt from inclusion
- Portuguese: imune — exempt from inclusion
- Portuguese: isento — exempt from inclusion
- Spanish: inmune — exempt from inclusion
- Swedish: immun — exempt from inclusion
- Swedish: skyddad — exempt from inclusion
- Swedish: exemt — exempt from inclusion
- Arabic: مَنِيع (manīʕ) — protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
- Bulgarian: притежаващ имунитет (pritežavašt imunitet) — protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
- Catalan: immune — protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
- Czech: imunní — protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
- Esperanto: imuna — protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
- Finnish: immuuni — protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
- Finnish: vastustuskykyinen — protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
- French: immun — protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
- Galician: inmune — protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
- German: immun — protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
- Hungarian: immunis — protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
- Indonesian: imun — protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
- Irish: imdhíonach — protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
- Italian: immune — protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
- Kazakh: иммунды (immundy) — protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
- Malay: imun — protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
- Māori: whaiawhikiri — protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
- Norwegian Bokmål: immun — protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
- Norwegian Nynorsk: immun — protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
- Portuguese: imune — protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
- Spanish: inmune — protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
- Swedish: immun — protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
- Tagalog: liway — protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
- Welsh: imiwn — protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
- Welsh: heintrydd — protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
- Bulgarian: неподатлив (nepodatliv) — not vulnerable
- Norwegian Bokmål: immun — not vulnerable
- Norwegian Nynorsk: immun — not vulnerable
- Swedish: immun — not vulnerable
- Bulgarian: имунен (imunen) — of or pertaining to the immune system
- Catalan: immunitari — of or pertaining to the immune system
- Czech: imunitní — of or pertaining to the immune system
- Finnish: immunologinen — of or pertaining to the immune system
- Finnish: immuuni- — of or pertaining to the immune system
- French: immunologique — of or pertaining to the immune system
- French: immunitaire — of or pertaining to the immune system
- Irish: imdhíonachta — of or pertaining to the immune system
- Italian: immunològico — of or pertaining to the immune system
- Persian: ایمنی (imeni) — of or pertaining to the immune system
- Portuguese: imunológico — of or pertaining to the immune system
- Spanish: inmunológico — of or pertaining to the immune system
- Spanish: inmunitario — of or pertaining to the immune system
- Swedish: immun- — of or pertaining to the immune system
- Tagalog: may-kabal — of or pertaining to the immune system
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