Valid
['vælɪd]
Definition
(adj.) still legally acceptable; 'the license is still valid' .
(adj.) well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force; 'a valid inference'; 'a valid argument'; 'a valid contract' .
Inputed by Andre--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Strong; powerful; efficient.
(a.) Having sufficient strength or force; founded in truth; capable of being justified, defended, or supported; not weak or defective; sound; good; efficacious; as, a valid argument; a valid objection.
(a.) Having legal strength or force; executed with the proper formalities; incapable of being rightfully overthrown or set aside; as, a valid deed; a valid covenant; a valid instrument of any kind; a valid claim or title; a valid marriage.
Typist: Nathaniel
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Efficacious, efficient, sound, weighty, powerful, conclusive, logical, cogent, persuasive, good, just, solid, important, grave, sufficient, strong, not weak, not defective, not frivolous, not fallacious.
Inputed by Josiah
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Strong, powerful, cogent, weighty, sound, substantial, available, efficient,sufficient, operative, conclusive
ANT:Weak, invalid, powerless, unsound, unsubstantial, unavailable, inefficient,insufficient, inoperative, obsolete, effete, superseded, inconclusive
Checker: Williams
Definition
adj. strong: having sufficient strength or force: founded in truth: sound: conclusive: (law) executed with the proper formalities: legal: rightful.—v.t. Val′idate to confirm give legal force to: test the validity of.—ns. Validā′tion; Valid′ity.—adv. Val′idly.—n. Val′idness.
Typist: Randall
Examples
- Then this is valid, the man said and handed him back the paper. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Science was valid, art was valid, the poorest grubber in a laboratory was engaged in a real labor, anyone who had found expression in some beautiful object was truly centered. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Tomorrow can be a day of much valid action. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Gibbon,[295] however, is of opinion that there was a valid marriage. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His philosophy, like Froebel's, marks in one direction an indispensable contribution to a valid conception of the process of life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In 1785 he brought his case again into court, and this time Lord Loughborough ruled that his patent was valid. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- This separation, if valid, is of especial significance for education. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This is acting on first impulses; you must take days to consider such a matter, ere your word can be regarded as valid. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- If the interpretation pleases you, you are welcome to hold it valid. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Even if I could be cleared by valid evidence, it would make little difference to the blessed world here. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Not a valid objection can be made. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Any valid professional aims may often find a freer, if not a richer field, in the provinces. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- If it brings about certain consequences, certain determinate changes, in the world, it is accepted as valid. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Thus he had to wince under a promise of success given by that ignorant praise which misses every valid quality. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The case at present must remain inexplicable; and may be truly urged as a valid argument against the views here entertained. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Yet there is a valid distinction between knowledge which is objective and impersonal, and thinking which is subjective and personal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I do not pretend, that this reason was valid. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
Typist: Randall