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invalid
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having no cogency or legal force; "invalid reasoning"; "an invalid driver's license" [ant: valid ] no longer valid; "the license is invalid"
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Invalid may refer to: Patient , a sick person one who is confined to home or bed because of illness, disability or injury (seen by some as a politically incorrect term) .invalid , a top-level Internet domain not intended for real use As the opposite of ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES declare sth illegal/invalid etc ▪ The war was declared illegal by the International Court of Justice. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Ackerman said the argument was invalid . ▪ Do not detach the coupon or your ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 Not valid; not true, correct, acceptable or appropriate. Etymology 2 a. Intended for use by an invalid. n. 1 (cx dated sometimes offensive English) Any person with a disability or illness. 2 (cx dated sometimes offensive English) A person who ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Invalid \In"va*lid\, v. t. To make or render invalid or infirm. ``Invalided, bent, and almost blind.'' --Dickens. To classify or enroll as an invalid. Peace coming, he was invalided on half pay. --Carlyle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"not strong, infirm," 1640s, from Latin invalidus "not strong, infirm, weak, feeble," from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + validus "strong" (see valid ). Specific meaning "infirm from sickness, disease, or injury" is from 1640s.
Usage examples of invalid.
You simply wish to keep Abigail an invalid so you can visit her in her bed.
But for domestic use we cannot advise its employment, as it is liable to injure the invalid, when its action is carried too far, which is apt to be the case, when not administered under the supervision of a competent physician.
While properly regulating and restricting the food of the invalid when necessary, they also recognize the fact that many are benefited by a liberal diet of the most substantial food, as steaks, eggs, oysters, milk, and other very nutritious articles of diet, which are always provided in abundance for those for whom they are suited.
The woman then came, and I thanked her for the care she had taken of the invalid.
If clairvoyance does not exist, then clearly the warrant was invalid, and we must reverse New York.
If any man could risk bluffing the police, it was Long Steve, for he still could pass himself as Cruke, a helpless invalid.
If the police looked for Cruke, they would find him in the hospital, under charge of a physician who would swear that the supposed invalid had been there long before the trouble at the Southlake Hotel.
Doc Ruttler, taking orders from the pretended invalid Cruke, could barricade the hospital, then summon the police.
After this I did not leave the bed of the invalid for a single instant.
I tried to buy a diploma for an invalid friend at home who had never traveled, and whose desire all his life has been to ascend Mont Blanc, but the Guide-in-Chief rather insolently refused to sell me one.
The invalid scrutinises what has been waiting for him and him alone beneath the dirndl skirt all these years.
Only a handful refused to do so, claiming that the election was held under duress and therefore invalid.
Similarly, a prohibition of unfair discrimination by any one engaged in the manufacture or distribution of a commodity in general use for the purpose of intentionally destroying competition of any regular dealer in such commodity by making sales thereof at a lower rate in one section of the State than in another, after equalization for distance, effects no invalid deprivation of property or interference with freedom of contract.
Tanto was seated now in the contraption that Favio and Fabel had commissioned for his use: a long, wickerwork chair with two small wheels attached in which the invalid would be able to propel himself along the flatter pathways surrounding the villa.
But at the moment Laura was not really aware of anything except Agnes Fane, who sat watching her approach from an invalid chair.