Adjective: valid
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more valid |
| Superlative | most valid |
Sample Sentences
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I will believe him as soon as he offers a valid answer.
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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? [2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2015, page 164:]
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A valid format for the date is DD/MM/YY.
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Do not drive without a valid license.
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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.
Adjectives inflected like valid
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁-
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₂wl̥h₁éh₁yeti
4. Proto-Italic *walēō
5. Latin valeō
6. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
7. Proto-Italic *-iðos
8. Latin -idus
9. Latin validusder.
10. Middle French validebor.
11. English valid
12. 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”). See: Latin Adjectives '
validus'.
Verbs referencing "valid"
Finnish Adjectives
validi.