qualify
UK /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ/ · US /ˈkwɑ.lɪ.faɪ/ verb, noun
Forms qualifies qualifying qualified
- verb (transitive) To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
- verb (intransitive) To successfully fall under some category or description by meeting requisite conditions.
- verb (transitive) To make someone competent or eligible for some position or task.
- verb (intransitive or reflexive) To become competent or eligible for some position or task.
- verb (transitive) To certify or license someone for something.
- verb (transitive) To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
- verb (transitive, now rare) To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.
- verb (intransitive) To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
- noun (juggling) An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.
Synonyms
measure up restrict dispose stipulate condition specify characterize characterise modify
Antonyms
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French qualifier (“to qualify”). Equivalent to quality + -fy.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To make such as is required; to give added or requisite qualities to; to fit, as for a place, office, occupation, or character; to furnish with the knowledge, skill, or other accomplishment necessary for a purpose; to make capable, as of an employment or privilege; to supply with legal power or capacity.
- verb To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
- verb To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment.
- verb To obtain legal power or capacity by taking the oath, or complying with the forms required, on assuming an office.
Etymology [F. qualifier, LL. qualificare, fr. L. qualis how constituted, as + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Quality, and -Fy.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “qualify”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details