invalid — Dizionario inglese

Aggettivo

1. Not valid; not true, correct, acceptable, or appropriate.

   Sinonimi

   disallowednonvalid

   Contrari

   valid

   Esempi

   Your argument is invalid because it uses circular reasoning.

   This invalid contract cannot be legally enforced.

Sostantivo

1. Any person with a disability or illness.

   Uso

   • datato
   • offensivo
   • sometimes

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.

   Uso

   • datato
   • offensivo
   • sometimes

3. A disabled member of the armed forces; one unfit for active duty due to injury.

   Uso

   • arcaico

Aggettivo

1. Suffering from disability or illness.

   Uso

   • not-comparable

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (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.

2. Intended for use by an invalid.

   Uso

   • not-comparable

Verbo

1. To exempt from (often military) duty because of injury or ill health.

   Uso

   • uso britannico
   • transitivo

   Esempi

   He was invalided home after the car crash.

   Altri esempi (2)

   [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.

   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.

2. To make invalid or affect with disease.

   Uso

   • transitivo

Aggettivo

1. having no cogency or legal force

   Contrari

   valid

   Esempi

   invalid reasoning

   an invalid driver's license

2. no longer valid

   Esempi

   the license is invalid

Sostantivo

1. someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury

   Sinonimi

   shut-in

   Termini più generali

   sick persondiseased personsufferer

Verbo

1. force to retire, remove from active duty, as of firemen

   Termini più generali

   remove

2. injure permanently

   Sinonimi

   disableincapacitatehandicap

   Termini più generali

   injurewound

   Esempi

   He was disabled in a car accident