HANDICAPPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does handicapped mean? 

• HANDICAPPED (noun)
  The noun HANDICAPPED has 1 sense:

1. people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped

  Familiarity information: HANDICAPPED used as a noun is very rare.

• HANDICAPPED (adjective)
  The adjective HANDICAPPED has 1 sense:

1. having restricted mental or physical functioning as a consequence of injury or illness

  Familiarity information: HANDICAPPED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HANDICAPPED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

People collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

disabled; handicapped

Context example:

technology to help the elderly and the disabled

Hypernyms ("handicapped" is a kind of...):

people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "handicapped"):

the halt ((archaic) lame persons collectively)

• HANDICAPPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having restricted mental or physical functioning as a consequence of injury or illness

Synonyms:

disabled; handicapped

Similar:

unfit (not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition)

 Context examples 

As it was clear to him that he had been handicapped by his early environment, so now he perceived that she was similarly handicapped.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Also he was handicapped in another way.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then, too, he was handicapped by the possession of a great fund of experience with girls and women who had been absolutely different from her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)