immune
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
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-
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: more immune
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most immune
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: immunes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Exempt; not subject to.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: As a diplomat, you are immune from prosecution.
He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.
Bret Stephens believed that, by virtue of his comfortable position at the New York Times, he ought to be immune from insult or criticism.
gloss: Protected by inoculation, or due to innate resistance to pathogens.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: I am immune to chicken pox.
gloss: Not vulnerable.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: Alas, he was immune to my charms.
[...] most of the original electrical signalling equipment has had to be replaced by apparatus immune to 50-cycle currents.
gloss: Of or pertaining to immunity.
pos: adj
examples: immune system
We examined the patient's immune response.
Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.
gloss: A person who is not susceptible to infection by a particular disease
pos: noun
examples: Susceptibles effectively exposed to cases become cases in the next time period; cases recovering from the infection accumulate as immunes.
Synonyms: -proof
exempt
immune
impenetrable
impermeable
impervious
protected
resistant
unaffectable
unsusceptible
Antonyms: susceptible
vulnerable
affectable
nonimmune
Derived words: acquired immune deficiency syndrome
alloimmune
autoimmune
auto-immune
cell-mediated immune response
chemoimmune
counterimmune
cryoimmune
dysimmune
gastrimmune
gay-related immune deficiency
hematoimmune
heteroimmune
homoimmune
hyperimmune
hypoimmune
immune cell
immune complex
immune deficiency
immune evasion
immunevasion
immune globulin
immune privilege
immune reaction
immune response
immune system
immunify
immunology
immunome
immunomics
isoimmune
lymphoimmune
neuroimmune
nonimmune
osteoimmune
pauci-immune
postimmune
preimmune
radioimmune
seroimmune
unimmune
xenoimmune
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: имунен
roman: imunen
lang: Catalan
word: immunitari
lang: Czech
word: imunitní
lang: Finnish
word: immunologinen
lang: Finnish
word: immuuni-
lang: French
word: immunologique
lang: French
word: immunitaire
lang: Irish
word: imdhíonachta
lang: Italian
word: immunològico
lang: Persian
word: ایمنی
roman: imeni
lang: Portuguese
word: imunológico
lang: Spanish
word: inmunológico
lang: Spanish
word: inmunitario
lang: Swedish
word: immun-
lang: Tagalog
word: may-kabal