Entry Word: disabled

Function: adjective

Meaning: deprived of the power to perform one or more natural bodily activities <the disabled man was unable to climb the stairs without help>

Synonyms challenged, incapacitated

Related Words blind, deaf, mute; halt, lame, paralyzed, quadriplegic; immobile, immobilized; ailing, diseased, ill, sick, unfit, unhealthy, unsound, unwell

Near Antonyms bouncing, chipper, fit, hale, healthy, hearty, robust, sound, well, whole, wholesome

Antonyms able-bodied, nondisabled