# invalid
## English
### Etymology 1

From in- +‎ valid.

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: ĭn-vă'lĭd, IPA: /ɪnˈvæl.ɪd/
* Audio (US):(file)

#### Adjective

invalid (comparative more invalid, superlative most invalid)
* Not valid; not true, correct, acceptable or appropriate.
    Your argument is invalid because it uses circular reasoning.
    This invalid contract cannot be legally enforced.

##### Synonyms

* nonvalid
* disallowed

##### Antonyms

* valid

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2

From Middle French invalide, from Latin invalidus (“infirm, weak”), from in- (“not”) + validus (“strong”).

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: ĭn'və-lĭd, IPA: /ˈɪn.və.lɪd/
* Audio (US):(file)

#### Noun

invalid (plural invalids)
* (dated, sometimes offensive) Any person with a disability or illness.
* (dated, sometimes offensive) A person who is confined to home or bed because of illness, disability or injury; one who is too sick or weak to care for themselves.
* (archaic) A disabled member of the armed forces; one unfit for active duty due to injury.

##### Usage notes

In recent decades, the use of this word to label persons with disabilities gives the impression of invalidation, hence its offensiveness.

##### Derived terms

* fabulous invalid
* invalid carriage
* invalid chair
* invalid stout

##### Translations
#### Adjective

invalid (not comparable)
* Suffering from disability or illness.
** 2000, Diane Price Herndl, Invalid Women: Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940, University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 1:Invalidism therefore referred to a lack of power as well as a tendency toward illness. It is for this reason that I choose to discuss the invalid woman rather than just the ill one.
* Intended for use by an invalid.

#### Verb

invalid (third-person singular simple present invalids, present participle invaliding, simple past and past participle invalided)
* (British, transitive) To exempt from (often military) duty because of injury or ill health.
    He was invalided home after the car crash.
** 1989, Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, “Goodbyeee”, in Blackadder Goes Forth:Blackadder: Right, Baldrick, this is an old trick I picked up in the Sudan. We tell HQ that I’ve gone insane, and I’ll be invalided back to Blighty before you can say "wibble" — a poor, gormless idiot.
** 2019 September 18, Drachinifel, 26:33 from the start, in Battle of Tsushima - When the 2nd Pacific Squadron thought it couldn't get any worse...‎, archived from the original on 4 December 2022:The Japanese armored cruiser Nisshin has been hit badly. Shells have sheared off several main guns and virtually disarmed the vessel. In the middle of all this, one Ensign Isoroku Yamamoto loses two fingers to the remains of an explosion. If he'd lost a third, he would've been invalided out of military service. Thus, by the retention of a single digit would there be rather large consequences a few decades later on down the line.
* (transitive) To make invalid or affect with disease.

##### Derived terms

* invalid out

## German
### Alternative forms

* invalide

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

invalid (strong nominative masculine singular invalider, not comparable)
* invalid ((permanently) incapable of working, serving in the military etc. due to disability and/or illness)
    Hyponyms: arbeitsunfähig, berufsunfähig, dienstunfähig, erwerbsunfähig

#### Derived terms

* Invalider m, Invalide f
* Invalidität

### Further reading

* “invalid” in Duden online
* “invalide” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɪnˈvalɪt]
* Hyphenation: in‧va‧lid

### Etymology 1

From Dutch invalide, from French invalide, from Latin invalidus. The sense of invalid is semantic loan from English invalid.

#### Adjective

invalid
* disabled, handicapped.
    Synonyms: cedera, lemah
* invalid.
    Synonyms: batal, tidak sah

### Etymology 2

From Dutch in +‎ failliet (“bankrupt”).

#### Adjective

invalid
* (colloquial) bankrupt.
    Synonym: bangkrut

### Further reading

* “invalid” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French invalide, from Latin invalidus. Equivalent to in- +‎ valid.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /in.vaˈlid/

### Adjective

invalid m or n (feminine singular invalidă, masculine plural invalizi, feminine and neuter plural invalide)
* crippled, disabled
    Synonyms: infirm, schilod, beteag

#### Declension
### Noun

invalid m (plural invalizi, feminine equivalent invalidă)
* cripple, disabled person
    Synonyms: infirm, schilod

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /inʋǎliːd/
* Hyphenation: in‧va‧lid

### Noun

invàlīd m (Cyrillic spelling инва̀лӣд)
* invalid

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French invalide. Attested since 1758.

### Noun

invalid c
* (somewhat dated) a disabled person
    Synonym: funktionshindrad
    krigsinvaliderdisabled war veterans

#### Related terms

* invaliditet

#### See also

* ogiltig (“invalid”)

### References

* invalid in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* invalid in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* invalid in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)