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INVALID
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury
Synonyms:
invalid; shut-in
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("invalid" is a kind of...):
diseased person; sick person; sufferer (a person suffering from an illness)
Holonyms ("invalid" is a member of...):
homebound (people who are confined to their homes)
Derivation:
invalid (injure permanently)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
No longer valid
Example:
the license is invalid
Classified under:
Similar:
expired (having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having no cogency or legal force
Example:
an invalid driver's license
Classified under:
Similar:
bad; uncollectible (not capable of being collected)
fallacious; unsound (containing or based on a fallacy)
false (erroneous and usually accidental)
spurious (ostensibly valid, but not actually valid)
invalidated; nullified (deprived of legal force)
null; void (lacking any legal or binding force)
sophistic; sophistical (plausible but misleading)
Also:
illegitimate (of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful)
Antonym:
valid (well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force)
Derivation:
invalidity; invalidness (illogicality as a consequence of having a conclusion that does not follow from the premisses)
III. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they invalid ... he / she / it invalids
Past simple: invalided
Past participle: invalided
-ing form: invaliding
Sense 1
Meaning:
Injure permanently
Example:
He was disabled in a car accident
Synonyms:
disable; handicap; incapacitate; invalid
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "invalid" is one way to...):
injure; wound (cause injuries or bodily harm to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "invalid"):
hock (disable by cutting the hock)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Derivation:
invalid (someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Force to retire, remove from active duty, as of firemen
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "invalid" is one way to...):
remove (remove from a position or an office)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples:
This is an invalid term; lymphoblastic lymphomas are not chronic processes, but counterparts of acute lymphoblastic leukemias.
(Chronic Lymphoblastic Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)
To a poor bookworm and invalid like myself such a blow is paralysing.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The sufferings which Lady Bertram did not see had little power over her fancy; and she wrote very comfortably about agitation, and anxiety, and poor invalids, till Tom was actually conveyed to Mansfield, and her own eyes had beheld his altered appearance.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
At last, to make the matter easier, I went upstairs with her; and having waited outside for a minute, while she said a word of preparation to Mr. Barkis, presented myself before that invalid.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
They kissed her quietly, and went to bed as silently as if the dear invalid lay in the next room.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Ah! it shews what a sad invalid I am!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Signor Zamba is an invalid, and our new friend Castalotte has all power within the firm, which employs more than three hundred men.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The invalid sank back upon his cushions, tired out by this long recital, while his nurse poured him out a glass of some stimulating medicine.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The sad accident at Lyme was soon the prevailing topic, and on comparing their latest accounts of the invalid, it appeared that each lady dated her intelligence from the same hour of yestermorn; that Captain Wentworth had been in Kellynch yesterday (the first time since the accident), had brought Anne the last note, which she had not been able to trace the exact steps of; had staid a few hours and then returned again to Lyme, and without any present intention of quitting it any more.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
This distressing intelligence, as you may suppose, observed her ladyship, after giving the substance of it, has agitated us exceedingly, and we cannot prevent ourselves from being greatly alarmed and apprehensive for the poor invalid, whose state Sir Thomas fears may be very critical; and Edmund kindly proposes attending his brother immediately, but I am happy to add that Sir Thomas will not leave me on this distressing occasion, as it would be too trying for me.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
