Invalid

  • 11invalid — [adj1] worthless; unfounded bad, baseless, fallacious, false, ill founded, illogical, inoperative, irrational, mad, not binding, not working, nugatory, null, null and void*, reasonless, sophistic, unreasonable, unreasoned, unscientific, unsound,… …

    New thesaurus

  • 12invalid — Ⅰ. invalid [1] ► NOUN ▪ a person made weak or disabled by illness or injury. ► VERB (invalided, invaliding) (usu. be invalided) ▪ remove from active service in the armed forces because of injury or illness. DERIVATIVES …

    English terms dictionary

  • 13invalid — invalid1 [in′və lid; ] chiefly Brit [, in′vəlēd′] adj. [Fr invalide < L invalidus, feeble: see IN 2 & VALID] 1. not well; weak and sickly; infirm 2. of or for invalids [an invalid home] n. a weak, sickly person; es …

    English World dictionary

  • 14Invalid — 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 who is unable to care for himself. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 15Invalid — (v. lat.), gebrechlich, dienstunfähig; daher Invalidität, Dienstunfähigkeit. Invaliden, die durch Alter, Wunden u. Krankheit zum Kriegsdienst untauglichen Soldaten. Man unterscheidet Halbinvaliden, die zwar nicht mehr zum Feld , aber noch zum… …

    Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • 16invalid(e) — invalid(e)schwerbeschädigt,arbeitsunfähig,erwerbsunfähig,dienstunfähig,körperbehindert,versehrt;abwertend:verkrüppelt …

    Das Wörterbuch der Synonyme

  • 17invàlīd — m 〈G invalída〉 onaj koji ima od rođenja ili kao posljedicu ozljede ili bolesti tjelesno ili duševno oštećenje ∆ {{001f}}∼ rada onaj kojem je tjelesno ili duševno zdravlje narušeno na radnom mjestu ili u radnom procesu; ratni ∼ onaj kojem je… …

    Veliki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika

  • 18invalid — invalid[e]:1.⇨behindert–2.⇨erwerbsunfähig(1) …

    Das Wörterbuch der Synonyme

  • 19invalid — invalid‹e› »dienst , arbeitsunfähig (aufgrund von Gebrechen)«: Das zuerst im 18. Jh. als Substantiv Invalide im Sinne von »dienstuntauglicher, ausgedienter Soldat« bezeugte Fremdwort ist aus frz. invalide entlehnt, das auf lat. in validus… …

    Das Herkunftswörterbuch

  • 20invalid — is pronounced with the stress on the second syllable as an adjective (meaning ‘not valid’) and with the stress on the first syllable as a noun (meaning ‘a person affected by disease or injury’) …

    Modern English usage