BEDRIDDEN Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

bedridden

adjective

Definition of bedridden

as in bedfast

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Recent Examples of bedridden The outlet claims that after a night out partying at St Tropez’s Le Club 55 in early June 2026, Beatrice spent the next day bedridden and sick. — Allison Degrushe, StyleCaster, 25 June 2026 The attack only maims Aegon, who is left bedridden and unable to walk on his own. — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 20 June 2026 Soler said some of her neighbors bedridden and caregivers are forced to use towels and wet wipes to clean them. — ABC News, 12 June 2026 In her final bedridden weeks, Sylvie watches Court TV. — Julius Taranto, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for bedridden

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Adjective

Work took place in the spring and early summer and the pool was refilled in June, but an algae bloom returned just days later, turning the pool a sickly green color.

— Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
In the heyday of her career, her choppy hair, flat chest, sickly pallor and large darting eyes were a manic pixie dream.

— Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026

Definition of sickly

Adjective

Heel Moxley pounced on an ailing Nick Jackson and hit a piledriver on the outside.

— Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
Perhaps unsurprisingly, subsequent attempts at diplomacy, led by the ailing diplomat and intellectual Benjamin Franklin, also proved ineffective.

— Sarah M.S. Pearsall, The Conversation, 2 July 2026

Definition of ailing

Adjective

Costco is not liable for incentives not received due to entry of an invalid address during sign-up.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 July 2026
He was barred from the ballot paper after Russia’s Supreme Court ruled that more than 9,000 signatures submitted by Nadezhdin’s campaign were invalid — enough to disqualify him.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 July 2026

Definition of invalid

Adjective

Prosecutors, who had sought seven years and seven months in jail, said that the four women accusing him of rape, in both the proven and unproven cases, had each time been too unconscious or too incapacitated to resist him after attending parties.

— Gwladys Fouche, USA Today, 15 June 2026
The spoof comedy parodied 1970s disaster films and followed Hays' character, who must overcome his fear of flying to land a commercial jet when its crew and passengers become incapacitated by food poisoning.

— Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 12 June 2026

Definition of incapacitated

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