valid
/ˈvælɪd/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.38 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Acceptable, proper or correct; in accordance with the rules.
adj
Genuine - as distinguished from efficient or regular - sacrament.
Example Sentences
- "I will believe him as soon as he offers a valid answer."
- "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?"
- "A valid format for the date is DD/MM/YY."
- "Do not drive without a valid license."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *h₂wl̥h₁éh₁yeti Proto-Italic *walēō Latin valeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin validusder. Middle French validebor. English 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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₂welh₁-, valide, validus
Inflected Forms
more valid (comparative)
most valid (superlative)