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- pronunciation:
- vae
lih
deIt
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
validates, validating, validated |
| definition 1: |
to prove valid or acceptable; verify.
She validated the reports with direct evidence.He cited studies to validate his theory.- synonyms:
- authenticate, confirm, establish, substantiate, verify
- antonyms:
- disprove, invalidate, negate
- similar words:
- back, certify, circumstantiate, corroborate, fortify, legitimize, prove, support, sustain, vindicate
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| definition 2: |
to make valid by legal means.
Your signatures are needed to validate the contract.- synonyms:
- confirm, ratify
- antonyms:
- quash, revoke, void
- similar words:
- authorize, certify, formalize, legalize, license, sanction
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| related words: |
affirm, attest, certificate, confirm, consummate, control, demonstrate, endorse, evidence, justify, manifest, pass, stamp, witness |
adverb + (v.)validate
empirically, essentially, extensively, fully, partially, previously, scientifically, socially, somehow, statistically, thereby, thoroughly
(v.)validate
+ adverb
specifically
(v.)validate
+ noun
agenda,
assumption,
belief,
characteristic,
claim,
concept,
conclusion,
construct,
content,
credentials,
criterion,
data,
design,
document,
effectiveness,
efficacy,
evaluation,
existence,
experience,
feeling,
finding,
hypothesis,
identification,
identity,
importance,
index,
instrument,
interpretation,
intervention,
inventory,
knowledge,
laboratory,
means,
measure,
methodology,
model,
observation,
opinion,
prediction,
premise,
prevention,
proposition,
purpose,
reliability,
request,
result,
sample,
selection,
signature,
status,
survey,
technique,
testing,
theory,
thesis
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| derivation: |
validation (n.) |
The word validate
contains the following parts:
val, valu, valid
Latin
root
that means strength; worth
  Example words:
bivalent, divalent, equivalent, evaluate, heptavalent, invalidate, invaluable, multivalent, pentavalent, polyvalent, quinquevalent, tetravalent, trivalent, univalent, valid, validate, valor, valorize, valorous, valuable, value
-ate1
Latin
verb-forming suffix
that means to make, cause, do
More about this word part:
The suffix -ate
primarily forms transitive verbs from Latin bases. Many -ate
verbs were loanwords from Latin. Verbs ending in -ate
combine with the suffix -ion to form nouns ending in -ation. These verbs also have corresponding agent nouns ending in -ator (navigator, dictator, elevator).
Example words:
abbreviate, abdicate, abnegate, accelerate, accommodate, accumulate, activate, adequate, adjudicate, administrate, administrative, administrator, advocate, aerate, affiliate, agglomerate, agglutinate, aggravate, agitate, alienate, allocate, alternate, animate, annihilate, annotate, arrogate, aspirate, assimilate, associate, calibrate, capitulate, cerebrate, circulate, collaborate, collocate, commemorate, complicate, concentrate, congregate, consecrate, consummate, cooperate, coordinate, decapitate, decelerate, decerebrate, decimate, dedicate, dehydrate, deliberate, derogate, desecrate, dictate, disintegrate, dislocate, dissimulate, dissociate, divagate, domesticate, dominate, donate, duplicate, educate, elaborate, elevate, elongate, elucidate, emasculate, emigrate, enervate, enunciate, equate, equivocate, eradicate, evacuate, exasperate, exfoliate, expurgate, fluctuate, formulate, generate, gradate, graduate, gyrate, illuminate, illustrate, implicate, incorporate, indoctrinate, innovate, interpellate, interrogate, irradiate, irrigate, legislate, liberate, locate, mediate, motivate, narrate, navigate, negate, nominate, obliterate, operate, orate, originate, ovulate, palpate, participate, placate, populate, prognosticate, proliferate, radiate, regulate, resonate, rotate, segregate, simulate, subjugate, terminate, vacate, validate, contraindicate
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