1. To check and provide support for the soundness, accuracy, or suitability of something.
2. To officially confirm that something is acceptable or legally effective.
3. To acknowledge someone's feelings or experience as real and understandable.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- validate a measure
- validate a model
- validate against independent data
On the page
The questionnaire was validated against an established measure of literacy.
New observations helped validate the model outside its original dataset.
An authorized official must validate the certificate before it can be used abroad.
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Word forms
- Base
- validate / validates
- Past tense
- validated
- Past participle
- validated
- Present participle
- validating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- validate / validates
- Present continuous
- am/is/are validating
- Present perfect
- have/has validated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been validating
- Past
- validated
- Past continuous
- was/were validating
- Past perfect
- had validated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been validating
- Future
- will validate / validates
- Future continuous
- will be validating
- Future perfect
- will have validated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been validating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic. Validation supports use for a specified purpose; it does not establish universal truth. An officially validated document and a validated research instrument involve different checks. Verb inflections [base, third-person singular, past, past participle, -ing]: validate, validates, validated, validated, validating. Derived family (not inflections): validation, valid.
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