immune
To be immune to something is to be resistant to it. If you had chickenpox as a child, you should be immune to it now.
The adjective immune comes from the Latin word immunis, which means “exempt from public service.” If you’re protected — or exempt — from disease, injury, work, insults, or accusations, then you’re immune. Vaccinations serve to make people immune to certain diseases. Being a diplomat makes people immune to certain legal persecution. To be immune to bullying means that you don’t let the bad behavior of your peers get you down.
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relating to the condition of immunity
“the
immune system” -
relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection)
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synonyms:
resistant-
insusceptible, unsusceptible
not susceptible to
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insusceptible, unsusceptible
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(usually followed by `to’) not affected by a given influence
“immune to persuasion”-
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unaffected
undergoing no change when acted upon
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unaffected
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secure against
“immune from taxation as long as he resided in Bermuda”“immune from criminal prosecution”-
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exempt
(of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject
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exempt
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a person who is immune to a particular infection
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examples:
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Typhoid Mary
United States cook who was an immune carrier of typhoid fever and who infected dozens of people (1870-1938)
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types:
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carrier, immune carrier
(medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others
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Typhoid Mary