invalid
English
editEtymology 1
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editinvalid (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.
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Etymology 2
editFrom Middle French invalide, from Latin invalidus (“infirm, weak”), from in- (“not”) + validus (“strong”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editinvalid (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
editIn recent decades, the use of this word to label persons with disabilities gives the impression of invalidation, hence its offensiveness.
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Adjective
editinvalid (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
editinvalid (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...[1], 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.
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editGerman
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Adjective
editinvalid (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
editnumber & gender | singular | plural | |||
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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 |
Derived terms
edit- Invalider m, Invalide f
- Invalidität
Further reading
editIndonesian
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Dutch invalide, from French invalide, from Latin invalidus. The sense of invalid is semantic loan from English invalid.
Adjective
editinvalid
Etymology 2
editFrom Dutch in + failliet (“bankrupt”).
Adjective
editinvalid
- (colloquial) bankrupt.
- Synonym: bangkrut
Further reading
edit- “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.
Romanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French invalide, from Latin invalidus. Equivalent to in- + valid.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editinvalid m or n (feminine singular invalidă, masculine plural invalizi, feminine and neuter plural invalide)
Declension
editsingular | plural | ||||||
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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 |
Noun
editinvalid m (plural invalizi, feminine equivalent invalidă)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) invalid | invalidul | (niște) invalizi | invalizii |
genitive/dative | (unui) invalid | invalidului | (unor) invalizi | invalizilor |
vocative | invalidule | invalizilor |
Serbo-Croatian
editPronunciation
editNoun
editinvàlīd m (Cyrillic spelling инва̀лӣд)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |
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nominative | invàlīd | invalidi |
genitive | invalída | invalida |
dative | invalidu | invalidima |
accusative | invalida | invalide |
vocative | invalide | invalidi |
locative | invalidu | invalidima |
instrumental | invalidom | invalidima |
Swedish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French invalide. Attested since 1758.
Noun
editinvalid c
- (somewhat dated) a disabled person
- Synonym: funktionshindrad
- krigsinvalider
- disabled war veterans
Declension
editDeclension of invalid | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | invalid | invaliden | invalider | invaliderna |
Genitive | invalids | invalidens | invaliders | invalidernas |
Related terms
editSee also
edit- ogiltig (“invalid”)
References
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