HANDICAPPED PERSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does handicapped person mean? 

• HANDICAPPED PERSON (noun)
  The noun HANDICAPPED PERSON has 1 sense:

1. a person who has some condition that markedly restricts their ability to function physically or mentally or socially

  Familiarity information: HANDICAPPED PERSON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HANDICAPPED PERSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who has some condition that markedly restricts their ability to function physically or mentally or socially

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("handicapped person" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "handicapped person"):

amnesiac; amnesic (a person suffering from amnesia)

aphasic (someone affected by aphasia or inability to use or understand language)

hemiplegic (a person who has hemiplegia (is paralyzed on one side of the body))

paralytic (a person suffering from paralysis)

paraplegic (a person who has paraplegia (is paralyzed from the waist down))

quadriplegic (a person who is paralyzed in both arms and both legs)