invalid

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n

1. sickly person, infirm person, convalescent, shut-in, valetudinarian; patient, inpatient, outpatient, case; the sick, the infirm, the handicapped; sufferer, carrier, cripple, incurable, victim; hypochondriac, Pathol. neurasthenic, malingerer.

adj

2. sick, sickly, infirm, unwell, ill, ailing, valetudinarian, valetudinary; weak, weakly, feeble, enfeebled, frail, helpless, debilitated; exhausted, prostrate; unhealthy, diseased, morbose, unsound, under doctor's care; indisposed, confined, laid up, bedridden; handicapped, crippled, disabled, lame; paralyzed, paralytic; superannuated, retired; senescent, doting, senile, decrepit; moribund, dying, flagging, drooping.

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3. weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, devitalize; incapacitate, disable, lay up, confine, hospitalize; afflict, distress, pain, upset.

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adj

1. indefensible, unjustified, unjustifiable, unsupportable, unwarrantable, unwarranted, unsubstantiated, untenable; unfounded, ill-founded, unproved, unscientific, groundless, baseless; illogical, irrelevant, unreasonable, irrational, incoherent, absurd, preposterous; fabricated, invented, trumped-up, farfetched; faulty, false, fallacious, untrue, spurious, wrong, incorrect, erroneous; defective, imperfect, unsound, impaired; unsatisfactory, unacceptable, inadequate, insufficient, deficient, inappropriate, unsuited; inconsistent, incongruous, incongruent, contradictory; changed, altered, distorted, corrupt.

2. weak, ineffectual, inefficacious; powerless, impotent, vulnerable; unconvincing, lame, vague, flimsy; vain, idle, futile, unavailing, useless, nugatory, worthless, good-for-nothing; insipid, uninteresting, pointless, vapid; diluted, watery, attenuated; wishy-washy, namby-pamby, milk-and-water, wavering, vacillating, hesitant, indecisive.

3. legally ineffectual, legally unenforceable, not binding, inoperative, nonviable; null, void, null and void, annulled, nullified; set aside, quashed, vitiated, vacated, disenacted, disestablished; cancelled, discharged; repealed, revoked, rescinded, abolished, reversed, abrogated; renounced, repudiated, disclaimed, disavowed.