INVALID

IPA (US):

 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 no longer valid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)

Sense 1

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)

Derivation:

invalid (injure permanently)

• INVALID (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having no cogency or legal force

Context example:

an invalid driver's license

Similar:

bad; uncollectible (not capable of being collected)

fallacious; unsound (containing or based on a fallacy)

false (erroneous and usually accidental)

spurious (ostensibly valid, but not actually valid)

invalidated; nullified (deprived of legal force)

null; void (lacking any legal or binding force)

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)

Derivation:

invalidity; invalidness (illogicality as a consequence of having a conclusion that does not follow from the premisses)

Sense 2

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No longer valid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)

Present simple: I / you / we / they invalid ... he / she / it invalids   
Past simple: invalided   
Past participle: invalided   
-ing form: invaliding   

Sense 1

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Injure permanently

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

disable; handicap; 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

Derivation:

invalid (someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury)

 Context examples 

She could not call herself an invalid now, compared with her state on first reaching Bath.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The stout young man had left us, but his sister still remained with her hand in that of the invalid.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then the scanty supply of food was distressing: with the keen appetites of growing children, we had scarcely sufficient to keep alive a delicate invalid.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

John quietly set apart a little sum, that he might enjoy the pleasure of keeping the invalid supplied with the fruit she loved and longed for.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley had spent some hours of the morning with the invalid, who continued, though slowly, to mend; and in the evening Elizabeth joined their party in the drawing-room.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

"Yes, I ain't no invalid," he said.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

To save an invalid trouble, Inspector, Mr. Culverton Smith was good enough to give our signal by turning up the gas.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We invalids think we are privileged people.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Marianne had been two or three days at home, before the weather was fine enough for an invalid like herself to venture out.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Invalid, incorrect, or inappropriate information on the labels (not including instructions for use) e.g. mislabeled contents or device labeling characteristics or package contents.

(Inadequate Device Labeling Content Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)