Meaning

3 senses
  1. (dated, offensive, sometimes)Any person with a disability or illness.

    Invalide, Invalidin, Bettlägriger

    инвали́дinvalíd, инвали́дкаinvalídka, инвали́дinvalíd

    інвалі́дinvalíd, інвалі́дкаinvalídka, інвалі́дinvalíd

  2. (dated, offensive, sometimes)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.

    someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury

  3. (archaic)A disabled member of the armed forces; one unfit for active duty due to injury.

Examples

25 sentences
  1. Do I look like an invalid?

    Хіба я виглядаю, як інвалід? — deniko

  2. As of tomorrow, this e-mail address will be invalid.

  3. If you were forced to sign the contract, it's invalid.

  4. If you were forced to sign that contract, then it's invalid.

  5. If you were forced to sign it, the contract is invalid.

    deWenn man zur Unterschrift genötigt wurde, ist der Vertrag ungültig. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

9 languages
Українська
person with a handicap or disability:
Русский
person with a handicap or disability:
Deutsch
person with a handicap or disability:
sick person:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French invalide, from Latin invalidus (“infirm, weak”), from in- (“no

Borrowed from Middle French invalide, from Latin invalidus (“infirm, weak”), from in- (“not”) + validus (“strong”).

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Forms

plural: invalids
Singularinvalid
Pluralinvalids

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury:shut-in

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
invalid — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto