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Hey, guess what I just found out? Onelook now has Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary as a choice; I tried it, and it will actually let you see the word in the Visual Thesaurus. (I don't subscribe, so all my other efforts have failed since it stopped being free.)
I wasn't impressed, though, that the Cambridge didn't give the origin for valid, so I went to AHD, which offered:
ADJECTIVE:
1. Well grounded; just: a valid objection.
2. Producing the desired results; efficacious: valid methods.
3. Having legal force; effective or binding: a valid title.
4. Logic
a. Containing premises from which the conclusion may logically be derived: a valid argument.
b. Correctly inferred or deduced from a premise: a valid conclusion.
5. Archaic Of sound health; robust.
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ETYMOLOGY:
French valide, from Old French, from Latin validus, strong, from valre, to be strong; see wal- in Indo-European roots
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It should be noted that the prefix dis- is not always a negating prefix. In particular, the dis- of disgruntled is not negating, it is intensive. Another case of dis- being used as an intensive is in the word disannul. YCLIU.
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the prefix dis- is not always a negating prefix
This illustrates how many normative grammarians are misled by extra-linguistic considerations into manhandling the language. The notion that language must be consistent in the distribution of its vocabulary. This leads to concerns such as that in this thread. That the form disgruntled lacks a positive without the prefix. One can also note that the past participle lacks a verb: gruntelen 'to grunt (frequently)' which dropped out of the language during the Middle English period.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Then the tall ship stranded on the hapless coast of lost positives
tangle ; mid-14c., nasalized variant of tagilen "to involve in a difficult situation, entangle," from a Scandinavian source (cf. dialectal Swed. taggla "to disorder," O.N. žongull "seaweed").
entangle; early 15c., from en- (1) + tangle. Related: Entangled; entangling.
disentangle; 1590s; see dis- + entangle. Related: Disentangled; disentangling.
'tangle' 'entangle' 'disentangle'
How should I see 'disentangle'? As positive or as nagative?
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nagative I love it! And I am NOT going to tell Hubby.
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Hmm.., does this typo have some meaning I don't know of?
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verb (used without object)
to find fault or complain in an irritating, wearisome, or relentless manner (often fol. by at ): If they start nagging at each other, I'm going home.
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Yes; a nagging wife is a stereotype, unfortunately based all too often on truth. But it's not our fault: you men simply refuse to mature! Pick up after your danged selves! Put your dirty clothes in the hamper! Don't eat like a p... uh,...oops! 
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you men simply refuse to mature!
You talkin' t'me?
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When a man marries a woman he hopes she'll never change, but she always does. When a woman marries a man she hopes he'll change, but never does.
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