INVALID
Dictionary entry overview: What does invalid mean?
• INVALID (noun)
The noun INVALID has 1 sense:
1. someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury
Familiarity information: INVALID used as a noun is very rare.
• INVALID (adjective)
The adjective INVALID has 2 senses:
1. having no cogency or legal force
2. no longer valid
Familiarity information: INVALID used as an adjective is rare.
• INVALID (verb)
The verb INVALID has 2 senses:
1. force to retire, remove from active duty, as of firemen
2. injure permanently
Familiarity information: INVALID used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• INVALID (noun)
Meaning:
Someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
invalid; shut-in
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)
• INVALID (adjective)
Meaning:
Having no cogency or legal force
Context examples:
invalid reasoning / an invalid driver's license
Similar:
null; void (lacking any legal or binding force)
invalidated; nullified (deprived of legal force)
false (erroneous and usually accidental)
fallacious; unsound (containing or based on a fallacy)
bad; uncollectible (not capable of being collected)
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)
Meaning:
No longer valid
Context example:
the license is invalid
Similar:
expired (having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time)
• INVALID (verb)
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
Meaning:
Injure permanently
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
handicap; disable; incapacitate; invalid
Context example:
He was disabled in a car accident
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
