qualify
Verb
Verb Forms: qualified, qualifying, qualifies
- To make or be suitable for a position or purpose.
- prove capable or fit; meet requirements
- pronounce fit or able
- make more specific
- "qualify these remarks"
- make fit or prepared
- specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement
- describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of
- add a modifier to a constituent
- To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
- To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task.
- To certify or license someone for something.
- To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
- To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.
- To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
- To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
- To throw and catch each object at least twice.
Noun
- An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.
Examples
- He needed to qualify his word choice carefully to avoid a challenge.
- to qualify seven balls you need at least fourteen catches
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French qualifier (“to qualify”). Equivalent to quality + -fy.
Synonyms
characterise, characterize, condition, dispose, measure up, modify, restrict, specify, stipulate
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 22
qualify: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordqualify: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
qualify: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary