Qualify

Quick meaning: Qualify is a verb meaning (transitive) To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.

Meaning

(transitive) To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To successfully fall under some category or description by meeting requisite conditions.
2. (transitive) To make someone competent or eligible for some position or task.
3. (intransitive or reflexive) To become competent or eligible for some position or task.
4. (transitive) To certify or license someone for something.
5. (transitive) To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
6. (transitive, now rare) To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.
7. (intransitive) To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.

Example Sentences

It hath no larynx […] to qualify the sound.

to qualify seven balls you need at least fourteen catches

O! never say that I was false of heart, Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify

He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession.

Word Forms

• qualifies
• qualifying
• qualified

Synonyms for qualify

Depending on context, synonyms include stipulate, condition, specify, characterize, dispose, restrict.

Antonyms for qualify

Common opposites include disqualify, unqualify, unfit, indispose.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include specify, modify, stipulate, characterize, condition, restrict.

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