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invalidish

adj

Etymology

From invalid + -ish.

  1. derived from invalidus
  2. borrowed from invalide
  3. suffixed as invalidish — “invalid + ish”

Definitions

  1. Characteristic of an invalid.

    • Mrs. Willowes made a poor recovery after Laura’s birth; as time went on, she became more and more invalidish, though always pleasantly so.
    • After the stroke, Constance once again sat in an invalidish room that smelled of flannel sheets and dog.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for invalidish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA