Invalid

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not valid; of no force, weight, or cogency; weak.
  • In law, having no validity or binding force; wanting efficacy; null; void: as, an invalid contract or agreement.
  • Deficient in health; infirm; weak; sick.
  • noun. An infirm or sickly person; one who is affected by disease or disabled by any infirmity.
  • noun. Hence Something that is damaged, or the worse for wear, but not so much as to be wholly unserviceable.
  • To affect with disease; render an invalid: chiefly in the past participle.
  • To register as an invalid; enroll on the list of invalids in the military or naval service; give leave of absence from duty on account of ill health.
  • To cause one's self to be registered as an invalid.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of no force, weight, or cogency; not valid; weak.
  • adjective. Having no force, effect, or efficacy; void; null.
  • noun. A person who is weak and infirm; one who is disabled for active service; especially, one in chronic ill health who is unable to care for himself.
  • adjective. Not well; feeble; infirm; sickly.
  • transitive verb. To make or render invalid or infirm.
  • transitive verb. To classify or enroll as an invalid.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Not valid; not true, correct, acceptable or appropriate.
  • noun. One who is confined to home or bed because of illness, disability or injury
  • noun. Any person with a disability.
  • adjective. Intended for use by an invalid.
  • verb. To exempt from duty because of injury or ill health.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. no longer valid
  • adjective. having no cogency or legal force
  • verb. force to retire, remove from active duty, as of firemen
  • verb. injure permanently
  • noun. someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury
  • Word Usage
    "This revision adds requested functionality for outputting invalid or outdated standard numbers represented in subfields $y or $z in MARC 010, 020, 022, 024, 028, and 037 to the @invalid in MODS."
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    binding  valid  
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    illogical  
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    ballad  pallid  salad  valid  
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    cripple  dear  deceased  elderly  false  
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