disabling

English

Adjective

disabling (comparative more disabling, superlative most disabling)

1. That disables; crippling.
   • 2004, John Swain, ‎Sally French, ‎Colin Barnes, Disabling Barriers, Enabling Environments, page 262:

     Rationing decisions that accept people's 'needs' for physical care and limited domestic help, while rejecting demands to support integrated social activities as 'wants', legitimise some of our most disabling cultural values.

   • 2013, Jordi Alonso, ‎Somnath Chatterji, ‎Yanling He, The Burdens of Mental Disorders, page 193:

     Among physical conditions, neurological disorders are the most disabling conditions across all dimensions of disability consistently across the two higher country income levels.

   • 2022, Chyllia D Fosbre, Varcarolis Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, page 258:

     Schizophrenia spectrum disorders are some of the more disabling types of mental illnesses.

Derived terms

• disablingly
• nondisabling

 

Verb

disabling

1. present participle and gerund of disable

Anagrams

• Big Island, biligands, bisligand