validate

1. 1.

   declare or make legally valid

   Synonymsformalizeformalise

   Antonymsinvalidate

   Broaderauthorize

   Narrowersignco-signprobate
2. 2.

   prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something

   Antonymsinvalidate

   Broaderconfirm
3. 3.

   give evidence for

   Synonymscorroborate

   Broaderconfirm

   Narrowercircumstantiate
4. 4.

   make valid or confirm the validity of

   “validate a ticket”

   Antonymsinvalidate

   Broaderchange

Other forms of validate

past tense

validated·

present participle

validating·

third person

validates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about validate

What does validate mean?

validate means "declare or make legally valid". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in validate?

validate has 3 syllables: val-i-date. The stress falls on "val". In IPA it is /ˈvælədeɪt/.

What is another word for validate?

Close synonyms include formalize, formalise, corroborate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of validate?

The recorded antonyms are invalidate, invalidate, invalidate.

Is validate a common word?

validate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.