| ADJECTIVE | all | invalid | having no cogency or legal force |
|---|---|---|---|
| all | invalid | no longer valid | |
| NOUN | person | invalid, shut-in | someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury |
| VERB | social | invalid | force to retire, remove from active duty, as of firemen |
| body | invalid, disable, incapacitate, handicap | injure permanently |
| Sounds | ihnvae'lahd; ih'nvahlahd; ih'nvahlihd | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abbreviated ... wounded: 365 rhymes with ahd... | |
| abbreviated ... wrongheaded: 610 rhymes with ihd... | ||
| Meaning | Having no cogency or legal force. | |
|---|---|---|
| Examples |
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| Narrower | bad, uncollectible | not capable of being collected |
| fallacious, unsound | Containing or based on a fallacy | |
| false | erroneous and usually accidental | |
| invalidated, nullified | deprived of legal force | |
| null, void | lacking any legal or binding force | |
| sophistic, sophistical | Plausible but misleading | |
| spurious | Ostensibly valid, but not actually valid | |
| See also | illegitimate | Of marriages and offspring |
| Opposite | valid | Well grounded in logic / logic or truth or having legal force |
| Spanish | inválido, nulo | |
| Nouns | invalidity, invalidness | illogicality as a consequence of having a conclusion that does not follow from the premisses |
| Meaning | no longer valid. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "the license is invalid" | |
| Broader | expired | Having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time |
| Spanish | inválido, irrelevante, nulo | |
| Catalan | invàlid, irrellevant | |
| Meaning | someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | shut-in | |
| Member of | homebound | People who are confined to their homes / homes |
| Broader | sick person, diseased person, sufferer | A person suffering from an illness |
| Spanish | inválido, minusválido | |
| Catalan | invàlid, minusvàlid | |
| Verbs | invalid | injure permanently |
| Meaning | Force to retire, remove from active duty, as of firemen. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Broader | remove | Remove from a position or an office |
| Meaning | injure permanently. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
| Synonyms | disable, incapacitate, handicap | |
| Narrower | hock | disable by cutting the hock |
| Broader | injure, wound | Cause injuries or bodily harm to |
| Spanish | discapacitar, incapacitar, invalidar | |
| Catalan | incapacitar | |
| Nouns | invalid | someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury |
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