VALID

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Still legally acceptable

Example:

the license is still valid

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

unexpired (not having come to an end or been terminated by passage of time)

Derivation:

validity; validness (the quality of having legal force or effectiveness)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force

Example:

a valid contract

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

binding (executed with proper legal authority)

effectual; legal; sound (having legal efficacy or force)

legitimate; logical (based on known statements or events or conditions)

reasoned; sound; well-grounded (logically valid)

validated (declared or made legally valid)

Also:

legitimate (of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful)

reasonable; sensible (showing reason or sound judgment)

Antonym:

invalid (having no cogency or legal force)

Derivation:

validity (the quality of being valid and rigorous)

validness (the quality of having legal force or effectiveness)

Credits

Context examples:

During Phase 1, sufficient information about the drug's pharmacokinetics and pharmacological effects should be obtained to permit the design of well-controlled, scientifically valid, Phase 2 studies.

(phase I trial, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

That his anger could be carried to such a point of inconceivable resentment as to refuse his daughter a privilege without which her marriage would scarcely seem valid, exceeded all she could believe possible.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Professor Challenger's reasons for secrecy may be valid or not, but we had no choice but to adopt them, for he was prepared to abandon the whole expedition rather than modify the conditions upon which he would guide us.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not valid data.

(Invalid Data, NCI Thesaurus)

To address this, the UGR researchers have designed and validated an early detection test for oropharyngeal dysphagia—called EdisfO—for patients with preserved cognitive status (that is, with no cognitive problems) that has also proven valid in patients with impaired cognitive status.

(Scientists designed the first test to detect dysphagia, University of Granada)

It is equally certain that this house cannot be more than a mile or two from Oxshott, since Garcia was walking in that direction and hoped, according to my reading of the facts, to be back in Wisteria Lodge in time to avail himself of an alibi, which would only be valid up to one o’clock.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A qualitative characteristic or quantitative parameter used to provide a reliable and valid estimate of the degree to which patients who were diagnosed with particular condition or disease, match the traditional (prototypical) conception of this disease or condition.

(Diagnostic Accuracy Assessment Criterion, NCI Thesaurus)

K. Kemparaju, a professor at the biochemistry department of the University of Mysore, Karnataka, says the researchers have, through the study, made a highly valid effort to scientifically convince and sensitise antivenom producers and policymakers to switch to the making of region-specific antivenom.