Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to qualify
Participle: qualified
Gerund: qualifying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | qualify |
| you | qualify |
| he;she;it | qualifies |
| we | qualify |
| you | qualify |
| they | qualify |
Perfect
| I | have qualified |
| you | have qualified |
| he;she;it | has qualified |
| we | have qualified |
| you | have qualified |
| they | have qualified |
Past
| I | qualified |
| you | qualified |
| he;she;it | qualified |
| we | qualified |
| you | qualified |
| they | qualified |
Pluperfect
| I | had qualified |
| you | had qualified |
| he;she;it | had qualified |
| we | had qualified |
| you | had qualified |
| they | had qualified |
Future
| I | will qualify |
| you | will qualify |
| he;she;it | will qualify |
| we | will qualify |
| you | will qualify |
| they | will qualify |
Future Perfect
| I | will have qualified |
| you | will have qualified |
| he;she;it | will have qualified |
| we | will have qualified |
| you | will have qualified |
| they | will have qualified |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | qualify |
| you | qualify |
| he;she;it | qualify |
| we | qualify |
| you | qualify |
| they | qualify |
Perfect
| I | have qualified |
| you | have qualified |
| he;she;it | have qualified |
| we | have qualified |
| you | have qualified |
| they | have qualified |
Imperfect
| I | qualified |
| you | qualified |
| he;she;it | qualified |
| we | qualified |
| you | qualified |
| they | qualified |
Pluperfect
| I | had qualified |
| you | had qualified |
| he;she;it | had qualified |
| we | had qualified |
| you | had qualified |
| they | had qualified |
Conditional
Present
| I | would qualify |
| you | would qualify |
| he;she;it | would qualify |
| we | would qualify |
| you | would qualify |
| they | would qualify |
Perfect
| I | would have qualified |
| you | would have qualified |
| he;she;it | would have qualified |
| we | would have qualified |
| you | would have qualified |
| they | would have qualified |
Imperative
| you | qualify |
| we | Let's qualify |
| you | qualify |
Verbs conjugated like 'qualify'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'qualify'
coalify,
nullify,
quantify,
requalify,
salify,
suavify,
uglify,
unqualify,
æqualize,
Ajaxify,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- prepare
- adapt, equip, fit, suit
- label
- call, characterize, designate, name, signify
- limit
- mitigate, modify, narrow, restrain, restrict
- moderate
- assuage, diminish, ease, meliorate, mitigate, mollify, reduce, soften
Antonyms
- prepare
- neglect, ignore, overlook, forget
- moderate
- excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, extraordinary
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1465, "to invest with a quality," from M.L.
qualificare "attribute a quality to," from L.
qualis "of what sort" +
facere "to make" (see factitious). Sense of "be fit for a job" first appeared 1588.
Qualification in the sense of "limitation, restriction" is from 1543.
2. Borrowed from Middle French qualifier (“to qualify”). Equivalent to quality + -fy. See: Middle French '
qualifier'.
Verbs referencing "qualify"
Spanish
calificar, German, old spelling
qualifizieren.
Sample Sentences
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Descartes's methodism with its regulative criterion leads him to explicitly deny that accidentally true belief qualifies as knowledge. [1999, Matthew C. Bagger, Religious Experience, Justification, and History, →ISBN, page 62:]
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But if it is done in conjunction with repointing of the building, the work would probably qualify as a major capital improvement. [2007 February 11, Jay Romano, “Triggering a Rent Increase”, in The New York Times:]
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They usually spoke of this connection as a longing for the purer life of Attic civilization, but that was a delusion which even they recognized — the position of slaves and women hardly qualified Classical antiquity as an ideal of freedom. [1986 February 15, Michael Bronski, “Male Nudes: In His Own Image”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 31, page 8:]
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He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession. [1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:]
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O! never say that I was false of heart,
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Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify [1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 109”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:]
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he balmes and herbes thereto applyde, / And euermore with mighty spels them charmd, / That in short space he has them qualifyde, / And him restor'd to health, that would haue algates dyde. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
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It hath no larynx […] to qualify the sound. [1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:]
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to qualify seven balls you need at least fourteen catches