Word Meanings - QUALIFICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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;

Additional info about word: 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; an enabling quality or circumstance; requisite capacity or possession. There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive. Burke. 3. The act of limiting, or the state of being limited; that which qualifies by limiting; modification; restriction; hence, abatement; diminution; as, to use words without any qualification.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of QUALIFICATION)

• Ability
• Power
• cleverness
• faculty
• skill
• capacity
• talent
• expertness
• aptitude
• dexterity
• efficiency
• competency
• qualification
• Condition
• State
• case
• mood
• term
• mode
• requisite
• stipulation
• predicament
• proviso
• situation
• circumstances
• plight
• Endowment
• Gift
• provision
• benefit
• benefaction
• attainment
• Exception
• Qualification
• separation
• exclusion
• habitation
• entitlement
• empowerment

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of QUALIFICATION)

• Suppress
• repress
• suppose
• imply
• deny
• contradict
• retract

Related words: (words related to QUALIFICATION)

• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• SKILLFUL
  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• 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;
• TALENT
  tolerare, tollere, to lift up, sustain, endure. See Thole, v. t., 1. Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination
• ABILITY
  The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• CONTRADICTIVE
  Contradictory; inconsistent. -- Con`tra*dict"ive*ly, adv..
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• POWERABLE
  1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
• EXCLUSIONIST
  One who would exclude another from some right or privilege; esp., one of the anti-popish politicians of the time of Charles
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• STIPULATION
  A material article of an agreement; an undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain. Bouvier. Wharton. Syn. -- Agreement; contract; engagement. See Covenant. (more info) 1. The act of stipulating; a contracting or
• REPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being repressed.
• PROVISORILY
  In a provisory manner; conditionally; subject to a proviso; as, to admit a doctrine provisorily. Sir W. Hamilton.
• DEXTERITY
  1. Right-handedness. 2. Readiness and grace in physical activity; skill and ease in using the hands; expertness in manual acts; as, dexterity with the chisel. In youth quick bearing and dexterity. Shak. 3. Readiness in the use or control of the
• EXCEPTIONER
  One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton.
• ADORABILITY
  Adorableness.
• PREREQUISITE
  Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.
• AMENABILITY
  The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• SUITABILITY
  The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• EQUABILITY
  The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind. For the celestial bodies, the equability and constancy of their motions argue them ordained by wisdom. Ray.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• COMMENSURABILITY
  The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne.
• DEFLAGRABILITY
  The state or quality of being deflagrable. The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle.
• IMMEABILITY
  Want of power to pass, or to permit passage; impassableness. Immeability of the juices. Arbuthnot.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• INEVITABILITY
  Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness. Shelford.
• EFFUMABILITY
  The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor. Boyle.