Definitions for qualify

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qualify qual·i·fy

Spelling: [kwol-uh-fahy]

IPA: /ˈkwɒl əˌfaɪ/

Qualify is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in qualify (afilquy).

Definitions for qualify

verb (used with object)

1. to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent:
2. to modify or limit in some way; make less strong or positive:
3. Grammar. to modify.
4. to make less violent, severe, or unpleasant; moderate; mitigate.
5. to attribute some quality or qualities to; characterize, call, or name:
6. to modify or alter the flavor or strength of:
7. Law. to certify as legally competent.

verb (used without object)

1. to be fitted or competent for something.
2. to get authority, license, power, etc., as by fulfilling required conditions, taking an oath, etc.
3. Sports. to demonstrate the required ability in an initial or preliminary contest:
4. to fire a rifle or pistol on a target range for a score high enough to achieve a rating of marksman, sharpshooter, or expert.
5. Military. to pass a practical test in gunnery.
6. Law. to perform the actions necessary to acquire legal power or capacity:

Origin of qualify

1525-35; Medieval Latin quālificāre, equivalent to Latin quāl(is) of what sort + -ificāre -ify

Examples for qualify

I began to qualify, rather weakly; but what I said did not matter.

Qualification is exacting, and a majority of the teams that do qualify are from the West.

Magazines are the only thing in my apartment that qualify as clutter.

And I'll be qualify'd I never larnt such a word when I went to his school.

Do you send him to me,—I'll qualify him for that important station.

So Mr. Croy showed he could qualify the humble hand that assuaged him.

To qualify for special protection, Marmolejos wrote, Doyle would have to have disclosed “substantial” law-breaking by the lab.

She tossed her head as much as to say that she was still able to qualify for the description.

We cannot qualify it based on ideological notions or concepts important only at one time in history.

True, it took America until 1990 to qualify for another World Cup, and it was 64 years before we made it past the first round.