valid

See also: vàlid

English

Etymology

From Middle French valide (“healthy, sound, in good order”), from Latin validus, from valeō (“I am strong, I am healthy, I am worth”) +‎ -idus, from Proto-Indo-European *wal (“be strong”).

Adjective

valid (comparative more valid, superlative most valid)

1. Well grounded or justifiable, pertinent.
   • 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, page 164:

     Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?

   I will believe him as soon as he offers a valid answer.

2. Acceptable, proper or correct.

   A valid format for the date is MM/DD/YY.

   Do not drive without a valid license.

3. Related to the current topic, or presented within context, relevant.
4. (logic) Of a formula or system: such that it evaluates to true regardless of the input values.
5. (logic) Of an argument: whose conclusion is always true whenever its premises are true.

   An argument is valid if and only if the set consisting of both (1) all of its premises and (2) the contradictory of its conclusion is inconsistent.

Antonyms

• invalid

Hyponyms

• (in logic: argument whose conclusion is always true whenever its premises are all true): sound

Related terms

• validate
• validation
• validator

Translations

well grounded or justifiable, pertinent

• Catalan: vàlid (ca)
• Danish: valid
• Estonian: põhjendatud
• Georgian: დასაბუთებული (dasabutebuli), მოქმედი (mokmedi)
• Hungarian: alapos (hu), megalapozott (hu), indokolt (hu)
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• Maori: whaimana, whaitake, whaitake
• Romanian: valid (ro)
• Spanish: válido (es), valedero

acceptable, proper or correct

• Arabic: شَرَعِيّ (šaraʕiyy)
• Armenian: վավեր (vaver)
• Catalan: vàlid (ca)
• Chinese: 有效的 (yǒuxiào-de)
• Czech: platný (cs)
• Danish: gyldig
• Dutch: geldig (nl)
• Esperanto: valida
• Estonian: korrektne, õigustatud
• Finnish: kelpaava (fi), pätevä (fi), voimassa oleva, voimassaoleva
• French: valide (fr)
• Galician: válido
• Georgian: მართებული (martebuli), მისაღები (misaɣebi), სწორი (sc̣ori)
• German: gültig (de)
• Hungarian: érvényes (hu)
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• Icelandic: gildur (is)
• Italian: valido (it)
• Japanese: 有効な (ゆうこうな, yūkō-na)
• Korean: 유효한 (yuhyohan)
• Malay: sah
• Polish: ważny (pl)
• Portuguese: válido (pt)
• Romanian: valid (ro)
• Russian: действи́тельный (ru) (dejstvítelʹnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: važeći (sh)
• Spanish: válido (es)
• Swedish: giltig (sv)

related to the current topic — see relevant

Anagrams

• Advil, davil

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German

Etymology

From Latin validus.

Adjective

valid (not comparable)

1. valid

Further reading

• “valid” in Duden online

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin validus

Adjective

valid (neuter singular valid, definite singular and plural valide)

1. valid

References

• “valid” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin validus

Adjective

valid (neuter singular valid, definite singular and plural valide)

1. valid

References

• “valid” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.