disabled

7 definitions • 9 examples

having an illness, injury, or condition that makes it difficult to do some things that other people do:

The accident left him severely disabled.

relating to or intended for disabled people:

disabled access The library does not have disabled access.

disabled people as a group. This term is now considered offensive, and people usually prefer to say people with disabilities or disabled people.

lacking one or more of the physical or mental abilities that most people have:

a disabled war veteran

US law requires that all public buildings be accessible to the disabled.

They opened a group home for mentally disabled adults.

not having one or more of the physical or mental abilities that most people have:

disabled customers.

Many meat packing workers say the work is so physically hard that they become disabled after only a few years.

relating to or intended for disabled people:

disabled access/facilities/parking The factory has very limited disabled access.

people who are disabled:

He went on to invent 250 other products for the disabled, including eating and drinking aids and wheelchair gadgets.