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Adjective: immune  i'myoon
  1. Relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection)
    "The immune response helped fight off the virus";
    - resistant
     
  2. (usually followed by ‘to’) not affected by a given influence
    "immune to persuasion"
     
  3. Relating to the condition of immunity
    "the immune system"
     
  4. Secure against
    "immune from taxation as long as he resided in Bermuda"; "immune from criminal prosecution"
Noun: immune  i'myoon
  1. A person who is immune to a particular infection
    "Those who had recovered from the virus were assumed to be immune"

Derived forms: immunes

See also: exempt, insusceptible, unaffected, unsusceptible

Type of: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

Encyclopedia: Immune