qualify
Syllables: qual·i·fyUK/ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ//ˈkwɑ.lɪ.faɪ/
qualify verb: to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
Verb
qualify (third-person singular simple present qualifies, present participle qualifying, simple past and past participle qualified)
- To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
- To successfully fall under some category or description by meeting requisite conditions.
- Descartes's methodism with its regulative criterion leads him to explicitly deny that accidentally true belief qualifies as knowledge.1999, Matthew C. Bagger, Religious Experience, Justification, and History, →ISBN, page 62
- But if it is done in conjunction with repointing of the building, the work would probably qualify as a major capital improvement.2007 February 11, Jay Romano, “Triggering a Rent Increase”, in The New York Times
- To make someone competent or eligible for some position or task.
- They usually spoke of this connection as a longing for the purer life of Attic civilization, but that was a delusion which even they recognized — the position of slaves and women hardly qualified Classical antiquity as an ideal of freedom.1986 February 15, Michael Bronski, “Male Nudes: In His Own Image”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 31, page 8
- To become competent or eligible for some position or task.
- He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession.1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green...
- 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.
- O! never say that I was false of heart,
Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 109”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
- O! never say that I was false of heart,
- To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.
- he balmes and herbes thereto applyde, / And euermore with mighty spels them charmd, / That in short space he has them qualifyde, / And him restor'd to health, that would haue algates dyde.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- 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.
- It hath no larynx […] to qualify the sound.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
- To throw and catch each object at least twice.
- to qualify seven balls you need at least fourteen catches
Noun
qualify
- An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.
qualify meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
qualify in Hindi
- योग्यता प्राप्त करना
qualify in Tamil
- தகுதி பெறு, தரம்
qualify in Marathi
- पात्रता मिळवण्यासाठी
qualify in Urdu
- محدود کرنا, شرائط پر پورا اترنا
More languagesFewer languages
- qualify in Bengali
- প্রশমিত করা, পরিমিত করান, সীমাবদ্ধ করা, নিয়ন্ত্রিত করা
- qualify in Telugu
- అర్హత సాధించడానికి, అర్హత సాధించేందుకు
- qualify in Malayalam
- യോഗ്യത നേടുക, യോഗ്യത തെളിയിക്കുക
- qualify in Kannada
- ಅರ್ಹನಾಗು, ಅರ್ಹತೆಗೊಳಿಸು, ಅರ್ಹತೆಪಡೆ, ಯೋಗ್ಯತೆಪಡೆ
- qualify in Punjabi
- ਕੁਆਲੀਫਾਈ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
- qualify in Gujarati
- લાયકાત મેળવવા
- qualify in Vietnamese
- vượt qua vòng loại
Examples of qualify in a sentence
- Although not born in the country, she qualifies for nationality through her grandparents.
- I was hoping to make the team, but I didn't run the qualifying time.
- The tournament coordinator will seed the starting lineup with the best competitors from the qualifying round.
Antonyms of qualify
Forms of qualify
| third-person singular present | qualifies |
|---|---|
| present participle | qualifying |
| past participle | qualified |
| past | qualified |
Origin of qualify
Borrowed from Middle French qualifier (“to qualify”). Equivalent to quality + -fy.
Words formed from qualify
Questions about qualify
- What does qualify mean?
- Qualify means to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
- What is qualify in Hindi?
- Qualify in Hindi is योग्यता प्राप्त करना. See Qualify meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is qualify?
- Qualify can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce qualify?
- Qualify is pronounced /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of qualify?
- The past tense of qualify is qualified.
Words near qualify in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: qualify (page history and authors); qualify (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); qualify (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); qualify (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); qualify (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); qualify (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); qualify (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); qualify (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); qualify (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); qualify (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); qualify (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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