valid

Borrowed from Middle French valide (“healthy, sound, in good order”), from Latin validus, from valeō (“to be strong, to be healthy, to be worth”) +‎ -idus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“be strong”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvælɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ælɪd
• (Hong Kong) IPA^(key): /ˈvæ.lɪd/, /ˈveɪ.lɪd/

valid (comparative more valid, superlative most valid)

1. Well-grounded or justifiable, pertinent.

   Synonyms: arguable, groundly, proper, warrantable

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

   • 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 5 September 2015, 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?

2. Acceptable, proper or correct; in accordance with the rules.

   Synonyms: legit, legitimate; see also Thesaurus:valid

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

   Do not drive without a valid license.

3. Related to the current topic, or presented within context, relevant.

   Synonyms: applicable, germane; see also Thesaurus:pertinent

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.

6. (Christianity, theology) Genuine - as distinguished from efficient or regular - sacrament.

• invalid
• nonvalid

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

• "validity", The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. F. L. Cross, Elizabeth A. Livingstone (3rd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. 1997. p. 1667.

• Vidal, Advil, davil

Borrowed from Arabic وَالِد (wālid).

• IPA^(key): [vɑːˈlid]
• Hyphenation: va‧lid

valid (definite accusative validi, plural validlər)

1. (Classical Azerbaijani) father

   Synonym: ata

• Orucov, Əliheydər, editor (2006), “valid”, in Azərbaycan dilinin izahlı lüğəti [Explanatory Dictionary of the Azerbaijani Language]‎^[2] (in Azerbaijani), 2nd edition, volume 4, Baku: Şərq-Qərb, page 462

Borrowed from Latin validus.

• IPA^(key): /vaˈliːt/

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valid (strong nominative masculine singular valider, not comparable)

1. valid

• “valid” in Duden online
• “valid”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[3] (in German)

From English valid, from Middle French valide (“healthy, sound, in good order”), from Latin validus, from valeō (“to be strong, to be healthy, to be worth”) +‎ -idus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“be strong”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈvalɪt̪]
• Hyphenation: va‧lid

valid (plural valid-valid)

1. valid

   Synonyms: berlaku, sahih

• “valid”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Borrowed from Latin validus.

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

1. valid

• “valid” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin validus.

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

1. valid

• “valid” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French valide.

• IPA^(key): /vaˈlid/

valid m or n (feminine singular validă, masculine plural valizi, feminine/neuter plural valide)

1. valid

• validitate

• “valid”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026