Well-behaved vs Valid - What's the difference?
well-behaved | valid | Related terms |
(of a person or animal) Having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour;
:The boy is well behaved and is seldom naughty.
(mathematics) Having intuitive, easy to handle properties. Especially:
(mathematics) (of a function ) Having a finite derivative (of all orders) at all points, and having no discontinuities
Well grounded or justifiable, pertinent.
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Acceptable, proper or correct.
Related to the current topic, or presented within context, relevant.
(logic) Of a formula or system: such that it evaluates to true regardless of the input values.
(logic) Of an argument: whose conclusion is always true whenever its premises are true.
Well-behaved is a related term of valid.
As adjectives the difference between well-behaved and valid
is that well-behaved is (of a person or animal) having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour; while valid is valid.well-behaved
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(wikipedia well-behaved)Adjective
Synonyms
* well-mannered * seemlyAntonyms
* ill behaved * (mathematics) pathologicalvalid
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Adjective
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- I will believe him as soon as he offers a valid answer.
- A valid format for the date is MM/DD/YY.
- Do not drive without a valid license.
- An argument is valid if and only if the set consisting of both (1) all of its premises and (2) the contradictory of its conclusion is inconsistent.
