adjective🔥 Gen-Z slang

valid

acceptable, legit

What it means

Means acceptable, legit, or worthy of respect and approval. Calling an opinion, outfit, or choice 'valid' is a low-key way of cosigning it as totally fine or genuinely good.

Examples

  • Wanting pizza for breakfast? Honestly that's valid.
  • Her reasoning was actually valid, I can't argue.
  • That fit is valid, you ate that up.
  • Crying at that movie is completely valid, it's sad.

Where it comes from

A standard English word that took on slang weight as a casual stamp of approval. It became popular in online and Gen-Z conversation through the late 2010s.

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