disabling

That disables; crippling.

Adjective

  1. That disables; crippling.
    • 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...
    • Among physical conditions, neurological disorders are the most disabling conditions across all dimensions of disability consistently across the two higher country income levels. - 2013, Jordi Alonso, Somnath Chatterji,...
    • Schizophrenia spectrum disorders are some of the more disabling types of mental illnesses. - 2022, Chyllia D Fosbre, Varcarolis Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, page 258:

Forms

more disabling most disabling

Derived

disablingly nondisabling

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of disable