Dictionary Entry
qualify
qualify is a 7-letter English word with 14 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 22 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 22 · Words With Friends 23 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
- 3transitive verb
To reduce from a general, undefined, or comprehensive form, to particular or restricted form; to modify; to limit; to restrict; to restrain; as, to qualify a statement, claim, or proposition.
- 4transitive verb
Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors.
- 5transitive verb
To soothe; to cure; -- said of persons.
- 6intransitive verb
To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment.
- 7intransitive verb
To obtain legal power or capacity by taking the oath, or complying with the forms required, on assuming an office.
- 8verb
add a modifier to a constituent
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- 9verb
make more specific
"qualify these remarks"
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- 10verb
make fit or prepared
"Your education qualifies you for this job"
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- 11verb
describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of
"You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist"
"This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover"
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- 12verb
pronounce fit or able
"She was qualified to run the marathon"
"They nurses were qualified to administer the injections"
- 13verb
specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement
"The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"
"The contract stipulates the dates of the payments"
- 14verb
prove capable or fit; meet requirements
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