Word Meanings - QUALIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 employment or privilege; to supply with legal power or capacity. He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession. Macaulay. 2. To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate. It hath no larynx . . . to qualify the sound. Sir T. Browne. 3. 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. Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors. I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire, But qualify the fire's extreme rage. Shak. 5. To soothe; to cure; -- said of persons. In short space he has them qualified. Spenser. Syn. -- To fit; equip; prepare; adapt; capacitate; enable; modify; soften; restrict; restrain; temper.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of QUALIFY)

• Affranchise
• Free
• liberate
• enfranchise
• manumit
• qualify
• open
• Change Vary
• alter
• modify
• diversify
• transmute
• substitute
• fluctuate
• shift
• veer
• exchange
• Empower
• Enable
• commission
• encourage
• delegate
• warrant
• sanction
• direct
• authorize
• strengthen
• Endow
• Present
• enrich
• furnish
• adorn
• invest
• supply
• clothe
• endue

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of QUALIFY)

• Fix
• fasten
• locate
• insert
• pitch
• plant
• place

Related words: (words related to QUALIFY)

• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• MODIFY
  1. To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms of a contract. 2. To limit or reduce in extent or degree; to moderate; to qualify; to lower.
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• INVESTIGATION
  The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge,
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• ADORNINGLY
  By adorning; decoratively.
• ALTERNATING CURRENT
  A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
• PITCHINESS
  Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
• PITCHFORK
  A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• ALTERNATION
  Permutation. 3. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation. (more info) 1. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being
• PRESENT
  one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25.
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• ADORNATION
  Adornment.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PRESENTIVE
  Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. --
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• UNWARRANTABLE
  Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper. -- Un*war"rant*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*war"rant*a*bly, adv.
• SUBALTERNANT
  A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2. Whately.
• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• MISALTER
  To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.
• REENDOW
  To endow again.