Definition of Qualify

1. Verb. Prove capable or fit; meet requirements.

Exact synonyms: Measure Up
Generic synonyms: Answer, Do, Serve, Suffice
Derivative terms: Qualification, Qualifier, Qualifying, Quality, Quality

2. Verb. Pronounce fit or able. "They nurses were qualified to administer the injections"
Generic synonyms: Judge, Label, Pronounce
Specialized synonyms: Capacitate
Antonyms: Disqualify
Derivative terms: Qualification, Quality

3. Verb. Make more specific. "Qualify these remarks"
Exact synonyms: Restrict
Generic synonyms: Modify
Derivative terms: Qualification, Qualification, Quality

4. Verb. Make fit or prepared. "Your education qualifies you for this job"
Exact synonyms: Dispose
Specialized synonyms: Habilitate, Capacitate
Generic synonyms: Groom, Prepare, Train
Antonyms: Disqualify
Derivative terms: Quality

5. Verb. Specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement. "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments"
Exact synonyms: Condition, Specify, Stipulate
Generic synonyms: Contract, Undertake
Related verbs: Stipulate
Specialized synonyms: Provide
Derivative terms: Condition, Condition, Condition, Qualification, Specification, Specification, Stipulation, Stipulatory

6. Verb. Describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of. "This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover"

7. Verb. Add a modifier to a constituent.
Exact synonyms: Modify
Category relationships: Grammar
Generic synonyms: Add
Derivative terms: Modification, Modifier, Qualifier, Qualifying

Definition of Qualify

1. v. t. 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.

2. v. i. To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment.

Definition of Qualify

1. Verb. To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities. ¹

2. Verb. To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task. ¹

3. Verb. To certify or license someone for something. ¹

4. Verb. To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true. ¹

5. Verb. (rare) To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable. ¹

6. Verb. To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage ¹

7. Verb. (juggling) To throw and catch each object at least twice. ¹

8. Noun. (juggling) An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Qualify

1. to make suitable or capable [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Qualify

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qualificatives
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qualify (current term)
qualifying
qualifying adjective
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qualitativeness

Literary usage of Qualify

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"What it is which conditions qualify. In the law of property a condition relates generally to the vesting or divesting of title, but may relate to the ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"In the opinion of the majority some later cases are referred to which are said to qualify the decision in Buttz v. northern PR Co. ..."

3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1908)
"3620, in such cases "the jury may qualify their verdict by adding thereto 'without capital punishment,'" whereupon the sentence is imprisonment at hard ..."

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