Valid

Definitions: Valid

Valid

Adjective

1. Well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force; "a valid inference"; "a valid argument"; "a valid contract"; "a valid license".

2. Still legally acceptable; "the license is still valid".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "valid" was first used: 1571. (references)

Etymology: Valid \Val"id\, adjective. [French expression valide, French validus strong, from valere to be strong. See Valiant.]. (Websters 1913)

Computing

Math

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

VALID

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Valid

Power

Adjective: powerful, puissant; potential; capable, able; equal to, up to; cogent, valid; efficient, productive; effective, effectual, efficacious, adequate, competent; multipotent, plenipotent, omnipotent; almighty.

Reasoning,

Logical sequence; good case; correct just reasoning, sound reasoning, valid reasoning, cogent reasoning, logical reasoning, forcible reasoning, persuasive reasoning, persuasory reasoning, consectary reasoning, conclusive; ; subtle reasoning; force of argument, strong point, strong argument, persuasive argument.

Stability

Fixed, steadfast, firm, fast, steady, balanced; confirmed, valid; fiducial; immovable, irremovable, riveted, rooted; settled, established; Verb: vested; incontrovertible, stereotyped, indeclinable.

Strength

Adjective: strong, mighty, vigorous, forcible, hard, adamantine, stout, robust, sturdy, hardy, powerful, potent, puissant, valid.

Sufficiency

Adjective: sufficient, enough, adequate, up to the mark, commensurate, competent, satisfactory, valid, tangible.

Truth

Well-grounded, well founded; solid, substantial, tangible, valid; undistorted, undisguised; unaffected, unexaggerated, unromantic, unflattering.

Crosswords: Valid

German (valid).

And you have a girlfriend named Olivia and you haven't had a job since we blew up the school which is valid lifestyle-wise. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

No I'm not! Oh wait -- yes I am. But my point remains valid. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

It may even be valid. But all of these things not withstanding, I'm sure you'll understand why I'm electing to walk the rest of the way. (Columbo: Negative Reaction; writing credit: Peter S. Fischer)

While both sides have valid points of view, the producers of 'She Spies' wish to state that we take no stand whatsoever on the issue of animal testing, as we lack the moral fiber to take a strong position on anything at all. (She Spies; writing credit: Ron Osborn; Josh Appelbaum)

I believe that everyone's political opinion is valid, and worth hearing. (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)

Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid (1981)

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Books

• Acoustic Emission Training Guide: How to Ensure an Accurate and Valid Acoustic Emission Test (reference)

• Chronic Pain Evaluation, A Valid, Standardized Assessment Instrument (reference)

• Not on Virgin Grounds: Is the MVNO model valid in Asia? [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Pain Assessment Instruments for Chronic Pain Evaluation a Valid Standardized Assessment Instrument (reference)

• Sampling for Valid Analytical Measurement (reference)

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Periodicals

• Catalogue Of Valid Species And Synonyms (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Clause 1: All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation. (reference)

This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution. (reference)

If certain of these representatives cannot be appointed at the time of the coming into force of the present Treaty, the decision of the Commission shall nevertheless be valid. (reference)

We cannot be blind to the fact that the liberties enjoyed by individual citizens throughout the British Empire are not valid in a considerable number of countries, some of which are very powerful. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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Health

Future work is needed to determine whether this is a valid approach. (references)

The panelists concluded that the positive associations between vasectomy and prostate cancer found in some studies might or might not be valid. (references)

When HIV seroconversion outcomes are not feasible, well-designed self-report behavioral outcomes have shown indications of being valid and reliable. (references)

Business

Most licenses are valid for 20 years. (references)

The certificate is valid for six months. (references)

CE mark is not accepted by IMBiGS as a valid certificate. (references)

Children

Australia

The federal Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission receives complaints regarding children and attempts to resolve those that it finds valid. (references)

Senegal

The court overruled the board's decision on the grounds that a physical disability did not represent a valid legal ground for barring a person from teaching. (references)

Civil Liberties

Jordan

They receive 2-year passports valid for travel only. (references)

Economic History

Kenya

Licenses are valid for five years and are renewable. (references)

Japan

The qualification is usually valid for one to two years. (references)

Nicaragua

Often, more than one person has seemingly valid title documents. (references)

Human Rights

Bulgaria

The BHC believes this figure generally remained valid during the year. (references)

South Africa

In March the Commission began a process to determine which claims were valid. (references)

Ethiopia

After registration applicants received identity cards and residence permits valid for 6 months. (references)

Indigenous People

India

These regulations prohibit any person, including citizens from other states, from going beyond an inner boundary without a valid permit. (references)

Minorities

Jordan

However, most refugees who fled Gaza after 1967 are not entitled to citizenship and are issued 2-year passports valid for travel only. (references)

Fiji

Since its inception in 1999, 26 percent of the Human Rights Commission's 117 valid complaints (those in which an internationally recognized human right was verified to have been violated) were for racial and ethnic equality issues. (references)

Political Economy

NETHERLANDS

Patents are valid for 20 years. (references)

CHILE

Patents: Patents are valid for a nonrenewable term of 15 years. (references)

CHILE

Registration for an industrial design is valid for a nonrenewable term of 10 years. (references)

Political Rights

Russia

In a March 2000 election, Putin was elected President; while the opposition and the media claimed widespread election fraud, most international observers concluded that the election generally was free and fair, and the results valid. (references)

Romania

The Constitution and electoral legislation grant each recognized ethnic minority one representative in the Chamber of Deputies, provided that the minority's political organization obtains at least 5 percent of the average number of valid votes needed to elect a deputy outright. (references)

Brazil

On September 5, Congress passed a constitutional amendment limiting the president's power to legislate by "provisional measure (MP)." The new limits allow the president to issue MP's only valid for 60 days (renewable once) and force the Congress to vote on making MP's laws within 45 days or face a blocked agenda. (references)

Trade

Sri Lanka

LCs are valid for up to 180 days. (references)

Argentina

L/Cs are usually valid for one year. (references)

Bulgaria

Certificates are valid for two years. (references)

Travel

Burma

Tourist visas are valid for 28 days. (references)

Burma

A transit visa is valid for only 24 hours. (references)

Haiti

Visitors are required to have a valid passport. (references)

Worker Rights

Israel and the occupied territories

Palestinians without valid work permits are subject to arrest. (references)

France

If no new agreement can be reached, the contract from the previous year remains valid. (references)

Madagascar

The Labor Code applies to all workers; however, foreign workers must have a valid visa to be protected. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "valid": be valid ♦ legally valid ♦ rendering valid ♦ valid excuse ♦ valid for one day ♦ valid passport ♦ valid reason ♦ xenotransplantation valid consent. Additional references.

Beginning with "valid": valid-and.

Ending with "valid": in-valid, still-valid, universally-valid.

Albanian

me bazë (just, reasonable), i vlefshëm (effectual, objective, worth), i mirëqenë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فعال (active, businesslike, dynamic, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, energetic, forceful, forcible, functional, living, operative, potent, reliable, trenchant, virtuous), ‏مضبوط (accurate, all right, correct, exact, ok, okay, okey, perfect, precise, proper, right, sound), ‏قانوني (fair, jural, jurist, juristic, lawful, legal, legist, legitimate, licit, rightful, statutory), ‏ساري المفعول (standing), ‏صحيح (accurate, alright, aright, be in the right, consonantal, correct, entire, exact, faithful, hale, honest, indeed, ortho, plumb, precise, proper, pure, real, reasonable, regular, right, seemly, sincere, true, unbroken, veracious, veritable, whole), ‏صالح (adequate, godly, good, make one's peace with, make up, pact, righteous, useful, veracious, welfare, well being), ‏شرعي (de jure, judicial, judiciary, lawful, legal, legitimate, prima facie, rightful, true). (various references)

Bulgarian 

солиден (lusty, massive, massy, portly, pucka, pukka, rugged, secure, solid, sound, steady, sterling, substantial, trustworthy), валиден (available, good, passable), логичен (consistent, logical, necessary, reasonable, sequacious, sound), имащ законна сила, добре обоснован, действителен (actual, concrete, effective, factual, objective, operative, real, sound, true, virtual). (various references)

Chinese 

有效 (effective, in effect), 合法 (LAWFUL, legality, legally, legitimacy, legitimate, validly). (various references)

Czech

závažný (grand, grave, grievous, important, major, momentous, of great moment, relevant, satisfactory, weighty), statný (burly, gallant, hefty, portly, robust, stalwart, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy), silný (bad, big, boisterous, good, hard, heady, heavy, hefty, high, large, lusty, mighty, muscular, potent, powerful, red blooded, robust, rude, rugged, stalwart, stiff, stocky, stout, strong, sturdy, thick, tough, vigorous, violent), právoplatný (lawful), platný (passable, useful), pevný (adamant, compact, concrete, consistent, deep-seated, durable, energetic, fast, firm, fixed, good, hard set, hardwearing, heavy duty, immovable, ingrained, meaty, proof, resilient, resolute, secure, solid, sound, stable, steadfast, steady, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, sure, unmoved, unswerving, unyielding), pádný (cogent, compelling, convincing, damning, hefty, pointed, potent, satisfactory, strong, weighty), odùvodnìný (justified, legitimate, well founded). (various references)

Danish

gyldig. (various references)

Dutch

vigerend, geldig (acceptable), gangbaar (accepted, commercial, for sale, marketable, merchantable, saleable). (various references)

Esperanto

valida. (various references)

Faeroese

gildur. (various references)

Farsi 

موثر (Drastic, Effective, Efficacious, Impressive, Live, Operative, Pathetic, Pithy, Pivotal, Sensational, Weighty), معتبر (Authentic, Authoritative, Credible, Creditable, Good, Reliable, Responsible, Trusty), قوی (Boisterous, Drastic, Fort, Hard, Hefty, Intense, Irresistible, Lusty, Mighty, Overtone, Potent, Stalwart, Stark, Stocky, Strong, Swith, Vigorous), قانونی (Canonical, Juridical, Lawful, Legal, Legitimate, Standard, Statutory), سالم (Hale, Healthy, Intact, Lucid, Safe, Salubrious, Sane, Sound, Well, Whole), صحیح (Authentic, Correct, Exact, Good, Integral, Right, Safe, True), دارای اعتبار, درست (Accurate, Authentic, Conscionable, Correct, Entire, Even, Exact, Genuine, Integral, Just, Legitimate, Orthodox, Outandout, Perfect, Plumb, Right, Smackdab, Sock, Sound, Straight, Straightforward, True, Trustworthy, Upright, Veracious, Whole). (various references)

Finnish

pätevä (able, accomplished, capable, competent, qualified, tenable). (various references)

French

valable, valide. (various references)

German

rechtsgültig (legal, legally binding, legally valid, operative), gültig (available, effective, passable, significant, validated, validly, valuable). (various references)

Greek 

ισχύων (current, effective, prevalent). (various references)

Hebrew 

תופס (applicable), תקף, בר תוקף (in force). (various references)

Hungarian

érvényes (available, effectual, good, prevalent, stood, the bet stands, to hold good, to hold the field, to hold true, to operate, to stand). (various references)

Indonesian

benar (right, sincere, true), aci (agreed). (various references)

Italian

valido (available, effective, effectual, forceful, hefty, lusty, potent, powerful, sound, strong, sturdy), giustificato (justified). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

妥�" (appropriate, proper, right). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ヴァリッド , �"うしき (categorical, formal, regular), � とう (appropriate, defeat, knockdown, overthrow, proper, right). (various references)

Korean 

� 효한 (Available). (various references)

Manx

fondagh shickyr, breeoil (active, active as person, brisk, buoyant, buoyant of market, cogent, dynamic, energetic, essential, fizzy, forceful, go ahead, impulsive, purposeful, red-blooded, strenuous, vibrant, vigorous). (various references)

Norwegian

gyldig (good). (various references)

Pig Latin

alidvay.(various references)

Portuguese

válido (available, effectuate, lawful children, legal, minion). (various references)

Romanian

valabil (available, canonic, canonical, current, good), serios (appreciable, demure, earnest, earnestly, genuine, grave, gravely, grievously, important, in earnest, in good earnest, intimate, matronal, minded, reliable, sad, sedate, serious, serious minded, seriously, seriousness, severe, sober, solemn, solid, staid, steady, stern, weighty, well-conducted), concludent (clinching, cogent, conclusive, convincing, decisive, edifying, weighty), întemeiat (just). (various references)

Russian 

уважительный (good), обоснованный (cogent, founded, reasonable, well founded, well grounded, well-founded, well-grounded, well-thought-out), имеющий силу, действительный (actual, effective, factual, objective, operative, real, virtual). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

važeći (current, effect: in effect, lawfully, passable), punovažan, opravdan (excused, justifiable, justified, legitimate). (various references)

Spanish

válido (available, meaningful), vigente (active, in force, kind, kindly). (various references)

Swedish

hållbar (durable, lasting, serviceable, tenable), giltig (available, current, effective, effectual). (various references)

Turkish

yerinde (answerable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, calculated, condign, conformable, expedient, felicitous, fit, fitted, grandiloquent, in, in one's stead, in place, just, legitimate, on the premises, opportune, Pat, pertinent, pointed, pro-, proper, pursuant, rightful, snappy, sound, suitable, well, well-judged), yasal (clean, competent, de jure, juridical, juristic, juristical, lawful, legal, legit, legitimate, licit, right, rightful, solemn, sound, statutory, technical), yürürlükte (in force), sağlam (able bodied, bankable, bouncing, calculable, cast iron, consolidated, dyed in grain, fast, firm, flat-footed, foolproof, foursquare, gilt-edged, good, granitic, Hale, hard, healthy, hearty, indissoluble, invulnerable, lusty, responsible, rugged, runproof, safe, scatheless, secure, secured, solid, sound, stable, stalwart, stanch, staunch, steady, steely, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, substantive, sure, tough, unfaltering, unshakable, unshaken, whole), mantıklı (common-sensical, just, legitimate, level, level headed, likely, logical, plausible, rational, reasonable, sensible), geçerli (acceptable, admissible, available, current, effective, effectual, eligible, far out, in force, in use, operative, passable, prevailing, received, regnant, ruling, sound, viable), geçer (acceptable, current, passable, passing, received). (various references)

Ukranian 

вагомий (grave, ponderable, potent, weighty), дійсний (absolute, active, actual, authentic, available, indicative, objective, operative, real), дійовий (acting, active, aggressive, effectual, efficacious, forceful, virtuous). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vững chắc (deep-seated, secure, stanch, staunch, steady, unshaken), có hiệu lực; hợp lệ. (various references)

bona, bonae, bonam, bonas, bone, boni, bonis, bono, bonorum, bonos, bonum, bonus, firma, firmae, firmam, firmas, firme, firmi, firmior, firmiorem, firmiores, firmis, firmissimas, firmissime, firmissimi, firmissimo, firmissimus, firmo, firmos, firmum, firmus, melior, meliora, meliorem, meliores, melioresque, meliori, melioribus, melioris, melius, optima, optimae, optimam, optimas, optime, optimi, optimis, optimo, optimos, optimum, optimus, pervalida, ratus, salboni, valida, validae, validam, valide, validiore, validis, valido, validos, validum, validus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "valid": validate, validated, validates, validating, validation, validations, validities, validity, validly. (additional references)

Words ending with "valid": invalid, nonvalid. (additional references)

Words containing "valid": invalidate, invalidated, invalidates, invalidating, invalidation, invalidations, invalidator, invalidators, invalided, invaliding, invalidism, invalidisms, invalidities, invalidity, invalidly, invalids, nonvalidities, nonvalidity, revalidate, revalidated, revalidates, revalidating, revalidation, revalidations. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Valid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alid, Evald, faldi, falid, Kahlid, kalid, ovaloid, vacid, vaid, vailed, vakif, valaz, vald, valde, valed, valic, valide, valim, valip, valis, vallad, valox, valoz, vami, vamid, vanid, varix, vaxid, veild, velad, vili, vilia, vilie, vilig, vimid, vlaid, Vlasi, vli, voled, volid, walid. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: avid, dial, diva, laid, vail, vial.

-2 letters: aid, ail, dal, lad, lav, lid, via.

-3 letters: ad, ai, al, id, la, li.

+1 letter: avidly, vailed, vialed.

+2 letters: anviled, availed, caviled, datival, devisal, diluvia, glaived, invalid, ovoidal, rivaled, valgoid, validly, vapidly, vedalia, vialled.

+3 letters: anvilled, bivalved, cavilled, datively, deprival, devisals, dilative, diluvial, diluvian, disvalue, divalent, dividual, dovetail, drivable, evadible, gravidly, invalids, khedival, lavished, medieval, nonvalid, overlaid, ovicidal, oviducal, rivalled, validate, validity, vandalic, variedly, vedalias, villadom, vindaloo, violated, voidable.

+4 letters: adverbial, advisable, advisably, advisedly, avoidable, avoidably, bloviated, daredevil, deleaving, deprivals, derivable, devaluing, devisable, disavowal, disvalued, disvalues, dividable, dovetails, driveable, eluviated, flavonoid, gavelkind, invalided, invalidly, javelined, khedivial, larvicide, laudative, levigated, levitated, mediaeval, medievals, misvalued, overplaid, oviductal, prevailed, reavailed, salivated, travailed, unrivaled, validated, validates, valorised, valorized, vandalise, vandalism, vandalize, velarized, veridical, victualed, videoland, villadoms, vindaloos, viricidal, virucidal, vitalised, vitalized, vocalised, vocalized.

+5 letters: adaptively, additively, adenoviral, adhesively, adjectival, adoptively, adverbials, alleviated, cavaliered, clavichord, cultivated, daredevils, deceivable, decemviral, devitalize, devocalize, devotional, disavowals, disvaluing, divisional, dovetailed, evidential, flavonoids, galivanted, galvanised, galvanized, gavelkinds, illuviated, individual, invalidate, invaliding, invalidism, invalidity, larvicidal, larvicides, lixiviated, mediaevals, medievally, outcaviled, outrivaled, overlading, overplaids, pavilioned, quadrivial, revalidate, unrivalled, vacillated, validating, validation, validities, vandalised, vandalises, vandalisms, vandalized, vandalizes, vaudeville, ventilated, verbalized, vernalized, victualled, videolands, vindicable, visualised, visualized, vulcanised, vulcanized, vulgarised, vulgarized.

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