What's The Definition Of Invalid?
[n] someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury
[adj] no longer valid; "the license is invalid"
[adj] having no cogency or legal force; "invalid reasoning"; "an invalid driver's license"
[v] injure permanently; "He was disabled in a car accident"
[v] force to retire, remove from active duty, as of firemen
Synonyms | Synonyms for Invalid: bad |
disable |
expired |
fallacious |
false |
handicap |
incapacitate |
invalidated |
null |
nullified |
shut-in |
sophistic |
sophistical |
specious |
spurious |
uncollectible |
unsound |
void
Related Terms | Find terms related to Invalid: absonant |
afflict |
ailing |
anchoress |
anchorite |
annulled |
apoplectic |
arthritic |
ascetic |
bad |
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bedridden invalid |
black |
blank cartridge |
bootless |
cachectic |
case |
castrato |
cloistered monk |
closet cynic |
consumptive |
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counterproductive |
criminal |
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derange |
desert fathers |
desert saints |
devitalize |
Diogenes |
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effete |
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enervate |
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eremite |
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eunuch |
evil |
exhausted |
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fruitless |
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gelding |
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hermit |
hermitess |
Hieronymian |
Hieronymite |
homebody |
hospitalize |
ill |
illogical |
impaired |
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impotent |
improper |
in poor health |
inaccurate |
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inane |
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inauthentic |
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incurable |
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mad |
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null and void |
of no force |
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outpatient |
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pariah |
patient |
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peaky |
peccant |
pillar saint |
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reduced in health |
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repudiated |
revoked |
rheumatic |
run-down |
seclusionist |
self-annulling |
self-contradictory |
self-refuting |
senseless |
shut-in |
sick |
sick person |
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sickly |
sinful |
sinister |
solitaire |
solitary |
solitudinarian |
sophistic |
spastic |
spurious |
stay-at-home |
sterile |
stylite |
sufferer |
terminal case |
the sick |
Timon of Athens |
unauthentic |
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unconnected |
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unhealthy |
unkind |
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unskillful |
unsound |
untenable |
untoward |
untrue |
useless |
vain |
valetudinarian |
valetudinary |
vicious |
victim |
void |
weaken |
weakened |
weakling |
weakly |
wicked |
with low resistance |
without reason |
wrong
See Also | diseased person |
homebound |
illegitimate |
injure |
remove |
sick person |
sufferer |
wound
Invalid In Webster's Dictionary
\In*val"id\, a. [Pref. in- not + valid: cf. F. invalide,
L. invalidus infirm, weak. Cf. {Invalid} infirm.]
1. Of no force, weight, or cogency; not valid; weak.
2. (Law) Having no force, effect, or efficacy; void; null;
as, an invalid contract or agreement.
\In"va*lid\ (?; 277), n. [F. invalide, n. & a., L.
invalidus, a. See {Invalid} null.]
A person who is weak and infirm; one who is disabled for
active service; especially, one in chronic ill health.
\In"va*lid\, a. [See {Invalid}, n.]
Not well; feeble; infirm; sickly; as, he had an invalid
daughter.
\In"va*lid\, v. t.
1. To make or render invalid or infirm. ``Invalided, bent,
and almost blind.'' --Dickens.
2. To classify or enroll as an invalid.
Peace coming, he was invalided on half pay.
--Carlyle.
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