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

1. transitive 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.
2. transitive verb. To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
3. transitive 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.
4. transitive verb. Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors.
5. transitive verb. To soothe; to cure; -- said of persons.
6. intransitive verb. To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment.
7. intransitive verb. To obtain legal power or capacity by taking the oath, or complying with the forms required, on assuming an office.
8. verb. add a modifier to a constituent

   Synonyms: modify

9. verb. make more specific

   "qualify these remarks"

   Synonyms: restrict

10. verb. make fit or prepared

    "Your education qualifies you for this job"

    Synonyms: dispose

11. verb. 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"

    Synonyms: characterise, characterize

12. verb. pronounce fit or able

    "She was qualified to run the marathon"

    "They nurses were qualified to administer the injections"

13. verb. 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"

    Synonyms: condition, specify, stipulate

14. verb. prove capable or fit; meet requirements

Synonyms

modify, restrict, dispose, characterise, characterize, condition, specify, stipulate

Common word forms

qualified, qualifier, qualifies, qualifying

Words from these letters

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