Dictionary Definition
qualify
Verb
1 prove capable or fit; meet requirements [syn:
measure
up]
2 pronounce fit or able; "She was qualified to
run the marathon"; "They nurses were qualified to administer the
injections" [ant: disqualify]
3 make more specific; "qualify these remarks"
[syn: restrict]
4 make fit or prepared; "Your education qualifies
you for this job" [syn: dispose] [ant: disqualify]
5 specify as a condition or requirement in a
contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an
agreement; "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for
the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the
payments" [syn: stipulate, condition, specify]
6 describe or portray the character or the
qualities or peculiarities of; "You can characterize his behavior
as that of an egotist"; "This poem can be characterized as a lament
for a dead lover" [syn: characterize, characterise]
1 meeting the proper standards and requirements
and training for an office or position or task; "many qualified
applicants for the job" [ant: unqualified]
2 limited or restricted; not absolute; "gave only
qualified approval" [ant: unqualified]
3 holding appropriate documentation and
officially on record as qualified to perform a specified function
or practice a specified skill; "a registered pharmacist"; "a
registered hospital" [syn: certified]
4 restricted in meaning; (as e.g. `man' in `a
tall man') [syn: restricted]
5 having elements or qualities mixed in proper or
suitable proportions; especially made less severe; "justice
moderated with mercy" [syn: moderated]
7 legally qualified; "a competent
witness"qualified See qualify
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
- Meeting the standards, requirements, and training for a position.
- Restricted or
limited by conditions.
- Assuming that I have all the information, my qualified opinion is that your plan will work.
Antonyms
Translations
meeting requirements
- Chinese: 合格
- Czech: kvalifikovaný
- Finnish: pätevä
- French: qualifié
- German: qualifiziert
- Japanese: (tekikakuna), (shikaku no aru)
- Scottish Gaelic: ionnsaichte, uidheamaichte
- Spanish: calificado
- Swedish: kvalificerad, yrkeskunnig
restricted or limited
Verb
qualified- past of qualify
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
a propos, able, acceptable, accomplished, ad rem,
adapted, adept, adjusted, admissible, altered, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, au fait, becoming, befitting, better, bound, bounded, boxed in, capable, changeable, changed, checked out, circumscribed, competent, conditional, conditioned, confined, contingent, converted, copyrighted, cramped, definite, degenerate, deserved, desirable, determined, deviant, disciplined, divergent, dovetailing, earned, efficient, eligible, enfranchised, entitled, equal to, equipped, experienced, expert, felicitous, finite, fit, fitted, fitted for, fitting, fixed, geared, good, happy, hedged, hedged about, hedged in,
hemmed in, icebound,
improved, instructed, journeyman, just right,
justified, knowledgeable, landlocked, leavened, likely, limited, merited, meshing, metamorphosed, metastasized, mitigated, moderated, modified, modulated, mutant, narrow, on the button, opportune, partial, pat, patented, prepared, prescribed, proficient, proper, proscribed, proved, provisional, ready, rebuilt, reformed, relevant, renewed, reserved, restricted, revived, revolutionary, right, seasonable, seasoned, skilled, snowbound, softened, sortable, stinted, strait, straitened, subversive, suitable, suited, suiting, tailored, talented, tempered, tested, to the point, to the
purpose, trained,
transformed,
translated, transmuted, tried, unmitigated, up to, up to
snuff, warranted,
well-earned, well-fitted, well-informed, well-qualified,
well-suited, wicked,
windbound, with voice,
with vote, worse, worthy