What does invalid mean?

Definitions for invalid
ˈɪn və lɪd; Brit. -ˌlidin·valid

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. invalid, shut-inadjective

    someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury

  2. invalidadjective

    having no cogency or legal force

    "invalid reasoning"; "an invalid driver's license"

  3. invalidverb

    no longer valid

    "the license is invalid"

  4. invalidverb

    force to retire, remove from active duty, as of firemen

  5. disable, invalid, incapacitate, handicapverb

    injure permanently

    "He was disabled in a car accident"

Wiktionary

  1. invalidnoun

    One who is confined to home or bed because of illness, disability or injury

  2. invalidnoun

    Any person with a disability.

  3. invalidverb

    To exempt from duty because of injury or ill health.

    He was invalided home after the car crash.

  4. invalidadjective

    Not valid; not true, correct, acceptable or appropriate.

  5. invalidadjective

    Intended for use by an invalid.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. INVALIDadjective

    Weak; of no weight or cogency.

    Etymology: invalide, Fr. invalidus, Latin.

    But this I urge,
    Admitting motion in the heav'ns, to shew
    Invalid, that which thee to doubt it mov'd. John Milton.

  2. Invalid enoun

    One disabled by sickness or hurts.

    Etymology: Fr.

    What beggar in the invalides,
    With lameness broke, with blindness smitten,
    Wish'd ever decently to die? Matthew Prior.

ChatGPT

  1. invalid

    Invalid generally refers to something that is not true, correct, acceptable or legally recognized. It denotes a lack of soundness, cogency, or legality, rendering something ineffective or useless. The term can pertain to many different contexts such as invalid data, invalid argument, invalid passport etc. Its meaning can vary slightly based on the specific use case.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Invalidadjective

    of no force, weight, or cogency; not valid; weak

  2. Invalidadjective

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

  3. Invalidadjective

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

  4. Invalidnoun

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

  5. Invalidverb

    to make or render invalid or infirm

  6. Invalidverb

    to classify or enroll as an invalid

  7. Etymology: [See Invalid, n.]

Wikidata

  1. invalid

    The name invalid is reserved by the Internet Engineering Task Force in RFC 2606 as a domain name that may not be installed as a top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Invalid

    in-val′id, adj. without value, weight, or cogency: having no effect: void: null.—adj. In′valid, deficient in health, sick, weak.—n. one who is weak: a sickly person: one disabled for active service, esp. a soldier or sailor.—v.t. to make invalid or affect with disease: to enrol on the list of invalids.—v.t. Inval′idāte, to render invalid: to weaken or destroy the force of.—ns. Invalidā′tion; In′validhood, In′validism; In′validing, the return home, or to a more healthy climate, of soldiers or sailors who have been rendered incapable of active duty by wounds or the severity of foreign service; Invalid′ity, Inval′idness, want of cogency: want of force.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. invalid

    A maimed or sick soldier or sailor.--To invalid is to cause to retire from active service from inability.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. invalid

    A soldier who has been wounded, or has suffered in his health, and in consequence of his good conduct has been recommended to a certain provision for life. Chelsea Hospital is the place allotted for the reception of such objects of public gratitude and benevolence in England; the Soldiers’ Home, in Washington, D. C., in the United States, and the Hôtel des Invalides, at Paris, France. In England numbers of invalids are, however, allowed to reside where they choose, and are then known as “out-pensioners.”

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of invalid in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of invalid in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of invalid in a Sentence

  1. Jeff Flake:

    I must also say that separate and apart from this nomination and the facts that pertain to it, I do not believe that the claim of sexual assault is invalid because a 15-year-old girl didn't promptly report the assault to the authorities, as the President of the United States said just two days ago.

  2. Tim Jost:

    District Judge Reed O'Connor has declared the individual mandate unconstitutional and the rest of Affordable Care Act invalid, but District Judge Reed O'Connor has not blocked its continued operation.

  3. Yves Bot:

    It is apparent from the findings of the High Court of Ireland and of the (European) Commission itself that the law and practice of the United States allow the large-scale collection of the personal data of citizens of the EU which is transferred, without those citizens benefiting from effective judicial protection, the Commission decision is invalid.

  4. The CNIL:

    Facebook transfers personal data to the United States on the basis of Safe Harbour, although the Court of Justice of the European Union declared invalid such transfers in its ruling of October 6, 2015.

  5. Norbu Dunzhub:

    The identification was done without authorization. It was illegal and invalid.

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  • Neil Moray Urquhart Phelps
    Neil Moray Urquhart Phelps
    Most informative. Thank you.
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