adjective (becoming old-fashioned, sometimes offensive)
1 suffering from a mental or physical handicap:
a mentally / visually handicapped child * The accident left him physically handicapped.
2 (the handicapped) noun [pl.] people who are handicapped:
a school for the physically handicapped -< DISABLED
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
Where does this definition of handicapped come from?
This entry for handicapped is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does handicapped appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — handicapped appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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