QUALIFIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does qualified mean? 

• QUALIFIED (adjective)
  The adjective QUALIFIED has 5 senses:

1. meeting the proper standards and requirements and training for an office or position or task

2. limited or restricted; not absolute

3. holding appropriate documentation and officially on record as qualified to perform a specified function or practice a specified skill

4. restricted in meaning; (as e.g. 'man' in 'a tall man')

5. contingent on something else

  Familiarity information: QUALIFIED used as an adjective is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUALIFIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Meeting the proper standards and requirements and training for an office or position or task

Context example:

many qualified applicants for the job

Similar:

well-qualified (more than adequately qualified)

Also:

competent (properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient)

eligible (qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen)

Antonym:

unqualified (not meeting the proper standards and requirements and training)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Limited or restricted; not absolute

Context example:

gave only qualified approval

Similar:

conditional (qualified by reservations)

hedged; weasel-worded (evasively worded in order to avoid an unqualified statement)

limited; modified (mediocre)

Also:

conditional (imposing or depending on or containing a condition)

modified (changed in form or character)

Antonym:

unqualified (not limited or restricted)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Holding appropriate documentation and officially on record as qualified to perform a specified function or practice a specified skill

Synonyms:

certified; qualified

Context example:

a registered hospital

Similar:

registered (listed or recorded officially)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Restricted in meaning; (as e.g. 'man' in 'a tall man')

Synonyms:

qualified; restricted

Similar:

modified (changed in form or character)

Domain category:

grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))

Sense 5

Meaning:

Contingent on something else

Synonyms:

dependant; dependent; qualified

Similar:

conditional (imposing or depending on or containing a condition)

 Context examples 

If they are really qualified for the task, will not their own hearts be the first to inform them of it?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The ACSB provides qualified researchers with tissue, cell, blood and fluid specimens, as well as clinical data from patients with HIV-related malignancies.

(AIDS and Cancer Specimen Bank, NCI Thesaurus)

Of what he had then written, nothing was to be retracted or qualified.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

They knew more about the ways of the Southland gods than did he, and in their eyes he had qualified when he accompanied the gods inside the house.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“It ain't bad,” said Mr. Barkis, who generally qualified his speech, and rarely committed himself.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I am not qualified to form one.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

James accepted this tribute of gratitude, and qualified his conscience for accepting it too, by saying with perfect sincerity, “Indeed, Catherine, I love you dearly.”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

There are qualified people who can bring you relief and a better life.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The quality of being qualified for some purpose; having suitable or sufficient skill.

(Competency, NCI Thesaurus)

Or, perhaps she may not have resources enough in herself to be qualified for a country life.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)