invalid
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See also: invàlid
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Adjective
invalid (comparative more invalid, superlative most invalid)
- Not valid; not true, correct, acceptable or appropriate.
- Your argument is invalid because it uses circular reasoning.
- This invalid contract cannot be legally enforced.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations
not valid
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Etymology 2
From Middle French invalide, from Latin invalidus (“infirm, weak”), from in- (“not”) + validus (“strong”).
Pronunciation
Noun
invalid (plural invalids)
- (dated, sometimes offensive) Any person with a disability or illness.
- (dated, sometimes offensive) A person who is confined to home or bed because of illness, disability or injury; one who is too sick or weak to care for themselves.
- (archaic) A disabled member of the armed forces; one unfit for active duty due to injury.
Usage notes
In recent decades, the use of this word to label persons with disabilities gives the impression of invalidation, hence its offensiveness.
Derived terms
Translations
person with a handicap or disability
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sick person
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Adjective
invalid (not comparable)
- Suffering from disability or illness.
- 2000, Diane Price Herndl, Invalid Women: Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940, University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 1:
- Invalidism therefore referred to a lack of power as well as a tendency toward illness. It is for this reason that I choose to discuss the invalid woman rather than just the ill one.
- Intended for use by an invalid.
Verb
invalid (third-person singular simple present invalids, present participle invaliding, simple past and past participle invalided)
- (British, transitive) To exempt from (often military) duty because of injury or ill health.
- He was invalided home after the car crash.
- 1989, Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, “Goodbyeee”, in Blackadder Goes Forth:
- Blackadder: Right, Baldrick, this is an old trick I picked up in the Sudan. We tell HQ that I’ve gone insane, and I’ll be invalided back to Blighty before you can say "wibble" — a poor, gormless idiot.
- 2019 September 18, Drachinifel, 26:33 from the start, in Battle of Tsushima - When the 2nd Pacific Squadron thought it couldn't get any worse..., archived from the original on 4 December 2022:
- The Japanese armored cruiser Nisshin has been hit badly. Shells have sheared off several main guns and virtually disarmed the vessel. In the middle of all this, one Ensign Isoroku Yamamoto loses two fingers to the remains of an explosion. If he'd lost a third, he would've been invalided out of military service. Thus, by the retention of a single digit would there be rather large consequences a few decades later on down the line.
- (transitive) To make invalid or affect with disease.
Derived terms
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
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Adjective
invalid (strong nominative masculine singular invalider, not comparable)
- invalid ((permanently) incapable of working, serving in the military etc. due to disability and/or illness)
- Hyponyms: arbeitsunfähig, berufsunfähig, dienstunfähig, erwerbsunfähig
Declension
| number & gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
| predicative | er ist invalid | sie ist invalid | es ist invalid | sie sind invalid | |
| strong declension (without article) |
nominative | invalider | invalide | invalides | invalide |
| genitive | invaliden | invalider | invaliden | invalider | |
| dative | invalidem | invalider | invalidem | invaliden | |
| accusative | invaliden | invalide | invalides | invalide | |
| weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der invalide | die invalide | das invalide | die invaliden |
| genitive | des invaliden | der invaliden | des invaliden | der invaliden | |
| dative | dem invaliden | der invaliden | dem invaliden | den invaliden | |
| accusative | den invaliden | die invalide | das invalide | die invaliden | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein invalider | eine invalide | ein invalides | (keine) invaliden |
| genitive | eines invaliden | einer invaliden | eines invaliden | (keiner) invaliden | |
| dative | einem invaliden | einer invaliden | einem invaliden | (keinen) invaliden | |
| accusative | einen invaliden | eine invalide | ein invalides | (keine) invaliden | |
Positive forms of invalid (uncomparable)
Derived terms
Further reading
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Dutch invalide, from French invalide, from Latin invalidus. The sense of invalid is semantic loan from English invalid.
Adjective
invalid
Etymology 2
From Dutch in + failliet (“bankrupt”).
Adjective
invalid
- (colloquial) bankrupt.
- Synonym: bangkrut
Further reading
- “invalid” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Etymology
Borrowed from French invalide, from Latin invalidus. Equivalent to in- + valid.
Pronunciation
Adjective
invalid m or n (feminine singular invalidă, masculine plural invalizi, feminine and neuter plural invalide)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative | indefinite | invalid | invalidă | invalizi | invalide | ||
| definite | invalidul | invalida | invalizii | invalidele | |||
| genitive/ dative | indefinite | invalid | invalide | invalizi | invalide | ||
| definite | invalidului | invalidei | invalizilor | invalidelor | |||
Declension of invalid
Noun
invalid m (plural invalizi, feminine equivalent invalidă)
Declension
Declension of invalid
Pronunciation
Noun
invàlīd m (Cyrillic spelling инва̀лӣд)
Declension
Declension of invalid
Etymology
Noun
invalid c
- (somewhat dated) a disabled person
- Synonym: funktionshindrad
- krigsinvalider
- disabled war veterans
Declension
| Declension of invalid | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | invalid | invaliden | invalider | invaliderna |
| Genitive | invalids | invalidens | invaliders | invalidernas |
Related terms
See also
- ogiltig (“invalid”)
References
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