All handicapped synonyms
hand·i·capped
H h adj handicapped
- disabled — physically or mentally impaired, injured, or incapacitated.
- disadvantaged — lacking the normal or usual necessities and comforts of life, as proper housing, educational opportunities, job security, adequate medical care, etc.: The government extends help to disadvantaged minorities.
- crippled — physically incapacitated
- wounded — suffering injury or bodily harm, as a laceration or bullet wound: to bandage a wounded hand.
- limited — confined within limits; restricted or circumscribed: a limited space; limited resources.
- restricted — confined; limited.
- burdened — If you are burdened with something, it causes you a lot of worry or hard work.
- restrained — characterized by restraint: The actor gave a restrained performance.
- stymied — Golf. (on a putting green) an instance of a ball's lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt.
- checked — Something that is checked has a pattern of small squares, usually of two colours.
- balked — to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at): He balked at making the speech.
- curbed — Also, British, kerb. a rim, especially of joined stones or concrete, along a street or roadway, forming an edge for a sidewalk.
- impeded — to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
- foiled — ornamented with foils, as a gable, spandrel, or balustrade.
- deterred — to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding: The large dog deterred trespassers.
- blocked — If something is blocked or blocked up, it is completely closed so that nothing can get through it.
- physically challenged — See example at challenged (def 1).
adjective handicapped
- baulked — to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at): He balked at making the speech.
- encumbered — Weighted down, loaded sufficiently to make slow.
- hampered — Hinder or impede the movement or progress of.