Adjective: immune i'myoon
- Relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection)
"The immune response helped fight off the virus";
- resistant
- (usually followed by ‘to’) not affected by a given influence
"immune to persuasion"
- Relating to the condition of immunity
"the immune system"
- Secure against
"immune from taxation as long as he resided in Bermuda"; "immune from criminal prosecution"
- 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