Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Confined to bed (by illness): Describes a person who is unable to leave their bed due to sickness, infirmity, or disability. It implies a state of being bedridden.

Usage

• The word bedrid is used attributively (before a noun) or predicatively (after a linking verb like 'be') to describe someone's condition.
• It is a formal or literary term. In everyday modern English, bedridden is more commonly used.

Examples

• The bedrid patient required constant care from the nurses.
• After the severe stroke, she became completely bedrid for several months.
• He has been bedrid with a high fever for a week.

Advanced Usage

• The term often carries a connotation of long-term or permanent incapacity, not just a short-term illness.
• It can be used figuratively in literature to describe something as inert or powerless, though this is rare.
  • The old factory stood bedrid and silent, a relic of a bygone era.

Variants and Related Words

• Bedridden (adj.): The more frequent modern variant of "bedrid," with identical meaning.
  • The bedridden man listened to the radio all day.
• Housebound (adj.): Confined to one's house, but not necessarily to bed.
• Invalid (n./adj.): A person made weak or disabled by illness or injury.

Synonyms

• Bedfast
• Immobilized
• Laid up (informal)
• Confined to bed

Antonyms

• Ambulatory
• Mobile
• Up and about

Adjective

1. confined to bed (by illness)