qualify
/ˈkwɑ.lɪ.faɪ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.19 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To successfully fall under some category or description by meeting requisite conditions.
Intransitive verb
verb
To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
Transitive verb
verb
To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Descartes's methodism with its regulative criterion leads him to explicitly deny that accidentally true belief qualifies as knowledge."
- "But if it is done in conjunction with repointing of the building, the work would probably qualify as a major capital improvement."
- "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."
- "He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession."
- "O! never say that I was false of heart, Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify"
- "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."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkwɑ.lɪ.faɪ/
- British English: /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ/