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handicapped (root: handicap)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun handicapped has 1 sense
- handicapped(n = noun.group) disabled - people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped; "technology to help the elderly and the disabled" is a kind of people
has particulars: the halt
Adjective handicapped has 1 sense
- handicapped(s = adj.all) disabled - incapable of functioning as a consequence of injury or illness; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
handicapped, a.
suffering from a handicap (in senses 4 or 5); disabled; at a disadvantage. [PJC]
THESAURUS
handicapped
amputee, bad, castrated, cripple, crippled, defective, deformity, disabled, emasculated, game, halt, halting, hamstrung, handicapped person, hobbling, idiot, imbecile, incapable, incapacitated, lame, limping, maimed, paralytic, paraplegic, quadriplegic, spavined, the crippled, the handicapped
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