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Lacking in accuracy or truth
“Keynes also makes an invalid argument, claiming that a fall in the nominal wage rate may not decrease the real wage rate but would rather increase the rate of unemployment.”
Not based on logic or reason
“A conclusion you presume to be true may be based on invalid reasoning.”
In poor health, especially regularly or chronically
“I have gone from an active and healthy individual to an invalid sufferer of every bad symptom bar nausea.”
Not legally valid or binding
“He claimed the raid had been illegal as an invalid warrant had been used.”
(of a falsehood) Concocted to deceive others
Not supported or proven by evidence
Deprived of the ability to perform natural physical activities
Showing a lack of common sense
Not admissible, especially as evidence or as an argument
No longer in use or existing
Not having a sound state of mind
No longer active or functioning
A person made weak or disabled by illness or injury
“In another tale, a boy who has come to the kibbutz under tragic circumstances wishes to visit his father, an invalid, at a hospital.”
To disable (someone) by injury or illness
“The passenger was invalided with the dreaded disease.”
(chiefly British) To exempt from duty because of injury or ill-health
“Rowley told Waller and Procter that he would go home if Dr. Meller would invalid him.”
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