invalidとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: ĭn-vă'lĭd, IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvæl.ɪd/

形容詞

invalid (comparative more invalid, superlative most invalid)

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

   Your argument is invalid because it uses circular reasoning.

   This invalid contract cannot be legally enforced.

同意語

• nonvalid
• disallowed

反意語

• valid

語源 2

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

発音

• enPR: ĭn'və-lĭd, IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.və.lɪd/

名詞

invalid (複数形 invalids)

1. (dated, sometimes offensive) Any person with a disability or illness.
2. (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.
3. (archaic) A disabled member of the armed forces; one unfit for active duty due to injury.

使用する際の注意点

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

形容詞

invalid (not comparable)

1. 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.

2. Intended for use by an invalid.

派生語

• invalid carriage
• invalid chair

動詞

invalid (三人称単数 現在形 invalids, 現在分詞 invaliding, 過去形および過去分詞形 invalided)

1. (Britain, transitive) To exempt from (often military) duty because of injury or ill health.

   He was invalided home after the car crash.

   • 1989, Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, "Goodbyeee", 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.

2. (transitive) To make invalid or affect with disease.