Definitions for disability

disability dis·a·bil·i·ty

Spelling: [dis-uh-bil-i-tee]
IPA: /ˌdɪs əˈbɪl ɪ ti/

Disability is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 345 anagrams from letters in disability (abdiiilsty).

Definitions for disability

noun

  1. lack of adequate power, strength, or physical or mental ability; incapacity.
  2. a physical or mental handicap, especially one that prevents a person from living a full, normal life or from holding a gainful job.
  3. anything that disables or puts one at a disadvantage:
  4. the state or condition of being disabled.
  5. legal incapacity; legal disqualification.
  6. disability insurance.

Origin of disability

First recorded in 1570-80; dis-1 + ability

Examples for disability

Pathways offers employment services no matter the intensiveness of the disability (they have a lottery system).

This disability was removed in 1802, and much benefit is expected to result from this measure.

Do you think that some exterior force is causing the President's disability?

Take one child and put him under the disability that the twins were born with.

Jason Kingsley, the son of one of the producers, would go on to appear 55 times on the show talking about his disability.

What if the pain her mother and doctors observed had nothing to do with disability, but was in fact pain?

Unfortunately, his disability—he is wheelchair-bound—was also in her crosshairs.

Only how the bonfires wouldn't burn if it should turn out to be only a disability after all.

It comes back to this idea that autism or disability is just around the corner but never in the room.

Certain sections of the nation get cured of this disability.

Word Value for disability
Scrable

16

Words with friends

17

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