Adjective: immune
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more immune |
| Superlative | most immune |
Sample Sentences
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As a diplomat, you are immune from prosecution.
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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. [1922, Michael Arlen, “2/9/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:]
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Bret Stephens believed that, by virtue of his comfortable position at the New York Times, he ought to be immune from insult or criticism. [2019 September 3, David Karpf, “Bret Stephens Compared Me to a Nazi Propagandist in the New York Times. It Proved My Point.”, in Esquire:]
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I am immune to chicken pox.
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Alas, he was immune to my charms.
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[...] most of the original electrical signalling equipment has had to be replaced by apparatus immune to 50-cycle currents. [1959 June, “The opening of the Colchester-Walton-Clacton electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 306:]
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immune system
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We examined the patient's immune response.
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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. [2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:]
Adjectives inflected like immune
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *mey-
3. Proto-Indo-European *moy-nósder.
4. Proto-Italic *moinos
5. Latin mūnus
6. Proto-Indo-European *né
7. Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
8. Proto-Italic *n̥-
9. Latin in-
10. Proto-Indo-European *-is
11. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
12. Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der.?
13. Proto-Italic *-is
14. Latin -is
15. Latin in- -is
16. Latin immūnisder.
17. Middle French immunbor.
18. Middle English
19. English immune
20. From Middle English, from Middle French immun, from Latin immūnis (“exempt from public service”), from in- (“not”) + mūnus (“service”). See: Latin Adjectives '
immūnis'.
Verbs referencing "immune"
Finnish Adjectives
immuuni, Dutch Adjectives
immuun.