Word Meanings - ELIGIBLENESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality worthy or qualified to be chosen; suitableness; desirableness.

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• QUALIFICATION
  1. The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified. 2. That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success;
• QUALIFIED
  1. Fitted by accomplishments or endowments. 2. Modified; limited; as, a qualified statement. Qualified fee , a base fee, or an estate which has a qualification annexed to it, the fee ceasing with the qualification, as a grant to A and his heirs,
• QUALITY
  1. The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank. We lived most joyful, obtaining acquaintance with many of the city not of the meanest
• QUALIFIER
  , One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies, reduces, tempers or restrains.
• QUALIFICATOR
  An officer whose business it is to examine and prepare causes for trial in the ecclesiastical courts.
• WORTHY
  worthi, wurÞi, from worth, wurÞ, n.; cf. Icel. verthugr, D. waardig, 1. Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous. Full worthy was he in his lordes war. Chaucer. These banished men that
• QUALIFIABLE
  Capable of being qualified; abatable; modifiable. Barrow.
• QUALIFIEDLY
  In the way of qualification; with modification or qualification.
• CHOSEN
  Selected from a number; picked out; choice. Seven hundred chosen men left-handed. Judg. xx. 16.
• QUALIFICATIVE
  That which qualifies, modifies, or restricts; a qualifying term or statement. How many qualificatives, correctives, and restrictives he inserteth in this relation. Fuller.
• DESIRABLENESS
  The quality of being desirable. The desirableness of the Austrian alliance. Froude.
• QUALIFIEDNESS
  The state of being qualified.
• INEQUALITY
  An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity;
• EQUALITY
  Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does. Confessional equality. See under
• LAUGHWORTHY
  Deserving to be laughed at. B. Jonson.
• SEAWORTHY
  Fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as, a seaworthy ship.
• COEQUALITY
  The state of being on an equality, as in rank or power.
• FORECHOSEN
  Chosen beforehand.
• BLAMEWORTHY
  Deserving blame; culpable; reprehensible. -- Blame"wor`thi*ness, n.
• DISQUALIFICATION
  1. The act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified; want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of men for holding certain offices. 2. That which disqualifies; that which incapacitates or makes unfit; as,
• NOTEWORTHY
  Worthy of observation or notice; remarkable.
• TRUSTWORTHY
  Worthy of trust or confidence; trusty. -- Trust"wor`thi*ness, n.