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invalid

noun

1 invalid

Someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury.

synonym: shut-in.

Roget 655: disease; illness, sickness etc. adj.; ailing &c.; all the ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; ... show more

Polish: kaleka, inwalida

verb

1 invalid

Force to retire, remove from active duty, as of firemen.

2 invalid

Injure permanently.

synonyms: disable, handicap, incapacitate.

adjective

1 invalid

Having no cogency or legal force.

Roget 964: illegal [contrary to law], unlawful, illegitimate; not allowed, prohibited etc. 761; illicit, contraband; actionable.    unwarranted, unwarrantable; unauthorized; ... show more

Roget 477: intuitive, instinctive, impulsive; independent of reason, anterior to reason; gratuitous, hazarded; unconnected.    unreasonable, illogical, false, unsound, invalid; unwarranted, ... show more

2 invalid

No longer valid.


Moby thesaurus: Diogenes, Hieronymian, Hieronymite, Timon of Athens, absonant, afflict, ailing, anchoress, anchorite, annulled, apoplectic, arthritic, ascetic, bad, barren, bedridden invalid, black, blank cartridge, bootless, cachectic ... show more.

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