handicapped (See handicap)

1 the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness; "reading disability"; "hearing impairment" [syn: disability, disablement, impairment]

2 advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning

3 something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress [syn: hindrance, deterrent, impediment, balk, baulk, check]

1 injure permanently; "He was disabled in a car accident" [syn: disable, invalid, incapacitate]

2 attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant

3 put at a disadvantage; "The brace I have to wear is hindering my movements" [syn: hinder, hamper] [also: handicapping, handicapped]handicapped adj : incapacitated by injury or illness [syn: disabled, incapacitated]

English

Verb

handicapped

1. past of handicap

Adjective

1. Having a handicap.
2. Limited by an impediment of some kind.

Translations

• Chinese: 残疾人 (cánjírén)
• Finnish: vammainen, vajaakykyinen
• Hebrew: נכה (nakheh)
• Italian: andicappato
• Korean: 불리한 (bullihan)
• Russian: инвалид (invalíd)
• Czech: mít handicap
• Spanish: minusválido
• Telugu: అవిటి (aviTi)

Handicapped or handicap may refer to:

• Disability, a human condition
• Handicapping, various methods of leveling a sport or game
  • Golf handicap, a sport-specific handicapping method
• Handicap principle, an evolutionary theory
• Self-handicapping, a psychological method of finding something to blame for failure besides one's own inability

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