invalid

Adjective

 * 1) Not valid; not true, correct, acceptable or appropriate.
 * Your argument is invalid because it uses circular reasoning.
 * This invalid contract cannot be legally enforced.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: нядзе́йсны, несапра́ўдны
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: invàlid
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: ógildigur
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:
 * Galician: inválido
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ógildur
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 무효하다,
 * Latin: irritus
 * Macedonian: неважечки
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: manakore, koremana
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: ugyldig
 * Plautdietsch: onjeltich
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: nevalid,
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: neplatný
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai: โมฆะ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: неді́йсний, недійови́й
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: ûnjildich

Etymology 2
From, from , from +.

Noun

 * 1)  Any person with a disability or illness.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3)  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.

Translations

 * Belarusian: інвалі́д, інвалі́дка
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 傷殘人
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, työkyvytön henkilö
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Malay:
 * Polish:, inwalidka
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Ukrainian: інвалі́д, інвалі́дка


 * Armenian: ,
 * Belarusian: інвалі́д, інвалі́дка
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: työkyvytön henkilö
 * French:
 * German: Bettlägriger,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Malay:
 * Maori: tūroro, oke, hāura
 * Polish:, inwalidka
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: інвалі́д, інвалі́дка

Adjective

 * 1) Suffering from disability or illness.
 * 2) Intended for use by an invalid.
 * 1) Intended for use by an invalid.

Verb

 * 1)  To exempt from (often military) duty because of injury or ill health.
 * 2)  To make invalid or affect with disease.
 * 1)  To make invalid or affect with disease.
 * 1)  To make invalid or affect with disease.
 * 1)  To make invalid or affect with disease.

Derived terms

 * invalid out

Adjective

 * 1) invalid

Etymology 1
From, from , from. The sense of invalid is.

Etymology 2
From.

Etymology
, from. Equivalent to.

Adjective

 * 1) crippled, disabled

Noun

 * 1) cripple, disabled person

Etymology
. Attested since 1758.

Noun

 * 1)  a disabled person