invalid

Speech parts

1. invalid - Noun

2. invalid - Adjective

3. invalid - Verb

4. invalid - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of no force, weight, or cogency; not valid; weak.

Having no force, effect, or efficacy; void; null; as, an invalid contract or agreement.

A person who is weak and infirm; one who is disabled for active service; especially, one in chronic ill health.

Not well; feeble; infirm; sickly; as, he had an invalid daughter.

To make or render invalid or infirm.

To classify or enroll as an invalid.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

wrong sick incorrect disabled null void illegitimate erroneous spurious faulty disable ailing untrue handicap unfounded
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Antonyms

valid cathedral orthodox boy scout salah Salim
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Hypernyms

remove wound injure sufferer sick person diseased person

Hyponyms

hock

Phrases with the word

invalid argumentation invalid reason be invalid seem invalid invalid approach render invalid

Examples

I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose. Oscar Wilde

It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable. Jack McDevitt

The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning. Stephen Jay Gould

The critique of the highest values hitherto does not simply refute them or declare them invalid. It is rather a matter of displaying their origins as impositions which must affirm precisely what ought to be negated by the values established. Martin Heidegger

Every invalid is a doctor. Irish Proverb

Every invalid is a physician. Irish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

invaginator invalescence invaletudinary invalid approach invalid argument invalid argumentation