Crippled vs Impaired - What's the difference?
crippled | impaired |
Having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.
Having any difficulty or impediment which can be likened to a crippling injury.
(cripple)
Rendered less effective
inebriated, drunk.
(impair)
As adjectives the difference between crippled and impaired
is that crippled is having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility while impaired is rendered less effective.As verbs the difference between crippled and impaired
is that crippled is (cripple) while impaired is (impair).As a noun impaired is
a criminal charge for impaired driving.crippled
English
Adjective
(head)- 1848' ''"A '''crippled man, twenty years older than you, whom you will have to wait on?"'' — Charlotte Bronte, ''Jane Eyre ,
Chapter 17.
- 1893' ''The Percy Driscoll estate was in such a '''crippled shape when its owner died that it could pay only sixty percent of its great indebtedness, and was settled at that rate.'' — Mark Twain, ''
Pudd'nhead Wilson.
Antonyms
* noncrippled * uncrippledVerb
(head)impaired
English
Adjective
(head)- His impaired driving skill due to alcohol caused the accident.