valid

B2 Topic:Describing Qualities

US /ˈvælɪd/ See IPA manual

adj Freq #8446

Meanings

1

adj
Able to be legally or officially used or accepted.

Your passport must be valid for at least six months.
2

adj
Based on good reasons or facts; sensible and acceptable.

She raised a valid point about the cost of the plan.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 adj · able to be legally or... legitimate

2 adj · based on good reasons or... sound justifiable proper

More acceptable allowable legitlevefullicit permissible rightful rulable true

Opposites

disallowedillegitimate illicit invalid nonstandardnonvalidnude nullunvalidvoid

Word family

Forms validly

Related forms compatible compliant conformant standard suitable validatevalidationvalidatorvalidness

Common collocations

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- Proto-Indo-European *h₂wl̥h₁éh₁yeti Proto-Italic *walēō Latin valeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. 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”).

*h₂welh₁- Proto-Indo-European valide Middle French validus Latin

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Topics

Describing Qualities

# valid

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B2
**Part of speech:** adj
**IPA (US):** ˈvælɪd
**Frequency rank:** 8446

## Meanings
1. Able to be legally or officially used or accepted.
2. Based on good reasons or facts; sensible and acceptable.

## Examples
- Your passport must be valid for at least six months.
- She raised a valid point about the cost of the plan.

## Synonyms
- acceptable
- allowable
- legit
- legitimate
- leveful
- licit
- permissible
- rightful
- rulable
- true

## Antonyms
- disallowed
- illegitimate
- illicit
- invalid
- nonstandard
- nonvalid
- nude
- null
- unvalid
- void

## Related Forms
- compatible
- compliant
- conformant
- standard
- suitable
- validate
- validation
- validator
- validness

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *h₂welh₁-
- Root: valide
- Root: validus

## Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- Proto-Indo-European *h₂wl̥h₁éh₁yeti Proto-Italic *walēō Latin valeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. 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”).

## AI Etymology
Valid is 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”). The historical chain runs through Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁-, Middle French valide, Latin validus. In present-day use, it can mean able to be legally or officially used or accepted, or based on good reasons or facts; sensible and acceptable.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities

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