Word Meanings - QUALIFICATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That which qualifies, modifies, or restricts; a qualifying term or statement. How many qualificatives, correctives, and restrictives he inserteth in this relation. Fuller.

Related words: (words related to QUALIFICATIVE)

• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• FULLER
  One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• QUALIFY
  1. 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
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• RELATIONAL
  1. Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke. 2. Indicating or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris.
• FULLERY
  The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.
• RELATION
  1. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events. relation doth well figure them. Bacon. 2. The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended
• STATEMENT
  1. The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case. 2. That which is stated; a formal embodiment in language of facts or opinions; a narrative; a recital. "Admirable
• RELATIONIST
  A relative; a relation.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• IRRELATION
  The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.
• REINSTATEMENT
  The act of reinstating; the state of being reinstated; re
• 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.
• CO-RELATION
  Corresponding relation.
• OVERSTATEMENT
  An exaggerated statement or account.
• UNDERSTATEMENT
  The act of understating, or the condition of being understated; that which is understated; a statement below the truth.
• UNQUALIFY
  To disqualify; to unfit. Swift.
• PRELATION
  The setting of one above another; preference. Jer. Taylor.
• INTERRELATION
  Mutual or reciprocal relation; correlation.
• CORRELATION
  Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place to, one another, under certain conditions; as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases. Correlation of