Word Meanings - DISQUALIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To deprive of the qualities or properties necessary for any purpose; to render unfit; to incapacitate; -- with for or from before the purpose, state, or act. My common illness disqualifies me for all conversation; I mean my deafness. Swift.

Additional info about word: DISQUALIFY

1. To deprive of the qualities or properties necessary for any purpose; to render unfit; to incapacitate; -- with for or from before the purpose, state, or act. My common illness disqualifies me for all conversation; I mean my deafness. Swift. Me are not disqualified by their engagements in trade from being received in high society. Southey. 2. To deprive of some power, right, or privilege, by positive restriction; to disable; to debar legally; as, a conviction of perjury disqualifies a man to be a witness.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISQUALIFY)

• Debar
• Exclude
• stop
• thwart
• obstruct
• hinder
• prevent
• deter
• deprive
• disqualify
• deny
• prohibit
• preclude

Related words: (words related to DISQUALIFY)

• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• DEBARB
  To deprive of the beard. Bailey.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• DEBARMENT
  Hindrance from approach; exclusion.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• DEBARRASS
  To disembarrass; to relieve.
• OBSTRUCTIVE
  Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment. -- Ob*struct"ive*ly, adv.
• OBSTRUCTIONIST
  One who hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body. -- a.
• PREVENT
  1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
• HINDEREST
  Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a. Chaucer.
• OBSTRUCTER
  One who obstructs or hinders.
• OBSTRUCT
  before or against, to obstruct; ob + struere to pile up. 1. To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing; as, to obstruct a street;
• PREVENTABILITY
  The quality or state of being preventable.
• HINDERMOST; HINDMOST
  Furthest in or toward the rear; last. "Rachel and Joseph hindermost." Gen. xxxiii. 2. (more info) superlative from the same source as the comparative hinder. See
• DETERRATION
  The uncovering of anything buried or covered with earth; a taking out of the earth or ground. Woodward.
• DEBARKATION
  Disembarkation. The debarkation, therefore, had to take place by small steamers. U. S. Grant.
• PROHIBITER
  One who prohibits or forbids; a forbidder; an interdicter.
• DETERMINER
  One who, or that which, determines or decides.
• DETERMINIST
  One who believes in determinism. Also adj.; as, determinist theories.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• OVERTHWARTLY
  In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. Peacham.
• INDETERMINABLE
  Not determinable; impossible to be determined; not to be definitely known, ascertained, defined, or limited. -- In`de*ter"mi*na*bly, adv.
• SELF-DETERMINATION
  Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.
• UNDETERMINABLE
  Not determinable; indeterminable. Locke.
• PREDETERMINATION
  The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will. Hammond.
• INDETERMINATE
  Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise; as, an indeterminate number of years. Paley. Indeterminate analysis , that branch of analysis which has for its object the solution of indeterminate problems. -- Indeterminate