Immune (Noun)
Meaning
A person who is immune to a particular infection.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- After contracting the virus as a child, she became immune to its effects for the rest of her life.
- People who have been vaccinated against a disease are often immune to its worst symptoms.
- Having grown up in a region with poor sanitation, he had become immune to the gastrointestinal diseases that often afflicted travelers.
- Her previous exposure to the disease made her immune to the latest outbreak that swept through the city.
- Years of working in a hospital had made him immune to the emotional toll of dealing with life-or-death situations.