unqualified
/ənkwˈɑlɪfˌaɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.19 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not qualified: ineligible; unfit for a position or task.
adj
Not elaborated upon; undescribed; unrestricted.
adj
verb
simple past and past participle of unqualify
Example Sentences
- "His lack of a high school diploma renders him unqualified for the job."
- "An obvious characteristic of a kakistocrat is inserting unqualified loyalists into positions of power. Nepotism and kakistocracy go hand-in-hand."
- "The right to free speech is well established as not being an unqualified right to violent incitement nor to free amplification."
- "Obviously, we must reject the existence of an unqualified or unspecified right to know. If the right to know did not require disclosure of only specific (types of) data or information, a person could be said to have a right to know just anything whatsoever."
- "[…] there is a multiplicity in the unqualified or unspecified concept of “soul,” such that it still retains its real meaning but by its very definition is predicated of different levels of things, at least in the classical conception of “soul.”"
- "an unqualified success"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English qualified English unqualified From un- + qualified.
Inflected Forms
more unqualified (comparative)
most unqualified (superlative)