impaired

English

Adjective

impaired

1. Rendered less effective.

   His impaired driving skill due to alcohol caused the accident.

2. inebriated, drunk.

Synonyms

• (rendered less effective):
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk

Derived terms

• chemically impaired
• hearing-impaired
• impaired driving
• living impaired
• living-impaired
• morning impaired
• sarcasm-impaired
• vision-impaired
• vision impaired
• visually impaired

 

Collocations

with nouns

• impaired vision
• impaired hearing
• impaired mobility
• impaired healing
• impaired fertility
• impaired health
• impaired judgment
• impaired cognition
• impaired consciousness
• impaired memory
• impaired concentration
• impaired function
• impaired performance
• impaired ability
• impaired capacity
• impaired person
• impaired child
• impaired adult

with adverbs

• visually impaired
• physically impaired
• mentally impaired
• emotionally impaired
• cognitively impaired

Translations

rendered less effective

• Bulgarian: увреден (bg) (uvreden)
• Dutch: verzwakt (nl), verminderd (nl), beschadigd (nl), verstoord (nl)
• Finnish: heikentynyt, alentunut (fi)
• French: détérioré (fr), affaibli (fr), diminué (fr)
• German: beeinträchtigt (de), behindert (de), gestört (de), gemindert (de), geschädigt (de), verschlimmert (de)
• Italian: diminuito (it)
• Japanese: 不自由な (ja) (fujiyū na)
• Latin: accīsus
• Maori: waimaero
• Romanian: înrautățit m or n, slăbit (ro) m or n, diminuat m or n
• Spanish: alterado (es), estropeado (es), aminorado (es)
• Swedish: nedsatt (sv), försämrad (sv)
• Turkish: bozuk (tr), güçsüz (tr), zayıf (tr)

inebriated, drunk — see also inebriated,‎ intoxicated,‎ drunk

• Finnish: juopunut (fi)
• Spanish: borracho (es)

Verb

impaired

1. simple past and past participle of impair

Noun

impaired (plural impaireds)

1. A criminal charge for driving a vehicle while impaired.

   The cop gave me an impaired.