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Handicapped

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Physically or mentally disabled: a pool equipped for handicapped swimmers.

n. People who have a physical or mental disability considered as a group. Often used with the.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. Simple past tense and past participle of handicap.

adj. Having a handicap.

adj. Limited by an impediment of some kind.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. suffering from a handicap (in senses 4 or 5); disabled; at a disadvantage.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped

adj. incapable of functioning as a consequence of injury or illness

Word Usage

"This example seems absurd, but the actual result of depriving kids of the kind of science that will allow them to compete in a world not similarly handicapped is similar in terms of effect."

Equivalent

unfit

Cross Reference

disabled

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

disabled

Verb Stem

handicap