Meaning of INVALID
| Pronunciation: | | [adj]in'valid, 'invulid
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- [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- [adj] no longer valid; "the license is invalid"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
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| | Synonyms: | | bad, disable, expired, fallacious, false, handicap, incapacitate, invalidated, null, nullified, shut-in, sophistic, sophistical, specious, spurious, uncollectible, unsound, void |
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| | See Also: | | diseased person, homebound, illegitimate, injure, remove, sick person, sufferer, wound | |
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\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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