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nullified

nullified

6.5
Made no longer valid by law
  • adjective
  • /ˈnʌlɪfaɪd/
  • Formal
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  • The judge ruled that the contract was nullified due to a lack of consent from one party.

There is the treatment of the other law as nullified, as being ethical only by accident.

Examples

  • All claims made in the lawsuit were nullified after the settlement agreement was reached.

  • The new evidence presented in court nullified the previous decision made by the jury.

  • There is the treatment of the other law as nullified, as being ethical only by accident.

    Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

Synonyms

null and void
vsnullified
  • Formal
12 4.8

Not legally valid or binding

is the verb form expressing the same legal loss of force
invalidated
vsnullified
  • Formal
6.3

Not legally valid and cannot be used in court

is the broader legal status of losing force, not only the official declaration
to brought to nought
vsnullified
  • Archaic
7.9

Make something fail completely so it has no effect

is specifically about legal voiding rather than general destruction or failure

Antonyms

validated
  • Formal
4.2

Officially checked and accepted as correct or legal

enforced
4.4

Force makes someone do something they do not choose

How Valid

binding
  • Formal
4.6
valid
348 3.1
unenforceable
  • Formal
7 7.7
nullified
  • Formal
6.5

Surface Forms

nullified positive

Morphology

nullified = nullify (transparent) = null + ify + ed

Formed by a straightforward two-step derivation: 'null' + '-ify' (to make void) = 'nullify', then '-ed' to form the adjectival/past-participle 'nullified'.

Etymology

The word nullified comes from the Latin root nullus, which means 'not any' or 'none', giving the idea of making something 'zero' or nothing. So, when a law or contract is nullified, it is treated as 'nothing' and has no legal power.