different between agreeable vs valid

English

Etymology

From Middle English agreable, from Old French agreable; displaced native Old English cweme (“pleasing, agreeable”). Equivalent to agree +? -able.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /????i??bl/

Adjective

agreeable (comparative more agreeable, superlative most agreeable)

1. pleasant to the senses or the mind

   • the train of agreeable reveries.

2. (dated) Willing; ready to agree or consent.
   • 1529, Hugh Latimer, sermon in Cambridge

     These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town.

3. Agreeing or suitable; followed by to, or rarely by with.

   Synonyms: conformable, correspondent, concordant
4. In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; used adverbially

Synonyms

• (pleasing, pleasant): See Thesaurus:pleasant
• (willing): See Thesaurus:acquiescent
• (conforming): See Thesaurus:agreeable

Translations

Noun

agreeable (plural agreeables)

1. Something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.
   • 1855, Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)

     The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.

Further reading

• agreeable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• agreeable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French valide (“healthy, sound, in good order”), from Latin validus, from vale? (“I am strong, I am healthy, I am worth”) +? -idus, from Proto-Indo-European *h?welh?- (“be strong”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?væl?d/

Adjective

valid (comparative more valid, superlative most valid)

1. Well grounded or justifiable, pertinent.

2. Acceptable, proper or correct; in accordance with the rules.

3. Related to the current topic, or presented within context, relevant.
4. (logic) Of a formula or system: such that it evaluates to true regardless of the input values.
5. (logic) Of an argument: whose conclusion is always true whenever its premises are true.

6. (Christianity, theology) Effective.

Antonyms

• invalid
• nonvalid

Hyponyms

• (in logic: argument whose conclusion is always true whenever its premises are all true): sound

Related terms

• validate
• validation
• validator

Translations

Anagrams

• Advil, davil

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin validus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?li?t/

Adjective

valid (not comparable)

1. valid

Declension

Further reading

• “valid” in Duden online

Indonesian

Etymology

From English valid, from Middle French valide (“healthy, sound, in good order”), from Latin validus, from vale? (“I am strong, I am healthy, I am worth”) +? -idus, from Proto-Indo-European *h?welh?- (“be strong”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?val?t?]
• Hyphenation: va?lid

Noun

valid (first-person possessive validku, second-person possessive validmu, third-person possessive validnya)

1. valid

   Synonyms: berlaku, sahih

Related terms

Further reading

• “valid” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin validus.

Adjective

valid (neuter singular valid, definite singular and plural valide)

1. valid

References

• “valid” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin validus.

Adjective

valid (neuter singular valid, definite singular and plural valide)

1. valid

References

• “valid” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French valide

Adjective

valid m or n (feminine singular valid?, masculine plural valizi, feminine and neuter plural valide)

1. valid

Declension

Related terms

• validitate