handicapped

hand·i·capped  (hnd-kpt)

adj.

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

n. (used with a pl. verb)

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

Usage Note: Although handicapped is widely used in both law and everyday speech to refer to people having physical or mental disabilities, those described by the word tend to prefer the expressions disabled or people with disabilities. Handicapped, a somewhat euphemistic term, may imply a helplessness that is not suggested by the more forthright disabled. It is also felt that some stigma may attach to the word handicapped because of its origin in the phrase hand in cap, actually derived from a game of chance but sometimes mistakenly believed to involve the image of a beggar. The word handicapped is best reserved to describe a disabled person who is unable to function owing to some property of the environment. Thus people with a physical disability requiring a wheelchair may or may not be handicapped, depending on whether wheelchair ramps are made available to them. See Usage Note at disabled.

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handicapped [ˈhændɪˌkæpt]

adj

1. (Medicine) physically disabled

2. (Psychology) Psychol denoting a person whose social behaviour or emotional reactions are in some way impaired

3. (Individual Sports, other than specified) (of a competitor) assigned a handicap

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	handicapped - people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped; "technology to help the elderly and the disabled" disabled people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" the halt - (archaic) lame persons collectively; "the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind"--Luke 14:21
Adj.	1.	handicapped - incapable of functioning as a consequence of injury or illness disabled unfit - not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition; "fat and very unfit"; "certified as unfit for army service"; "drunk and unfit for service"

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handicapped

adjective disabled, impaired, invalid, incapacitated, infirm financial help for visually handicapped workers

Translations

handicapped [ˈhændɪkæpt]

A. ADJ mentally handicapped → mentalmente discapacitado, psíquicamente disminuido
physically handicapped → minusválido, (físicamente)discapacitado
to be mentally/physically handicapped → tener una discapacidad mental/física, ser(un)discapacitado mental/físico

B. N the handicapped → los minusválidos, los discapacitados
the mentally handicapped → los discapacitados mentales, los disminuidos psíquicos

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handicapped [ˈhændikæpt]

adj (= disabled) → handicapé(e)
mentally handicapped → handicapé(e) mentalement
physically handicapped → handicapé(e) physiquement

npl
the handicapped (= the disabled) → les handicapés mpl

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handicapped [ˈhændɪˌkæpt] adj → handicappato/a, portatore/trice di handicap

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