1. Meeting the proper standards and requirements and training for an office, position or task
   "many qualified applicants for the job"
    
2. Holding appropriate documentation and officially on record as qualified to perform a specified function or practice a specified skill
   "He is qualified to teach high school mathematics";
   - certified
    
3. Limited or restricted; not absolute
   "gave only qualified approval"
    
4. Contingent on something else
   "His qualified approval was based on certain conditions being met";
   - dependent
    
5. (grammar) restricted in meaning; (as e.g. 'man' in 'a tall man')
   "The qualified term 'organic food' has a specific legal definition";
   - restricted

1. Prove capable or fit; meet requirements
   "She qualified for the position easily";
   - measure up
    
2. Pronounce fit or able
   "She was qualified to run the marathon"; "The nurses were qualified to administer the injections"
    
3. Make fit or prepared
   "Your education qualifies you for this job";
   - dispose
    
4. Make more specific to limit the strength or extent of a statement
   "He qualified his support for the proposal"; "qualify these remarks"
    
5. Make a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement
   "The will qualifies that she can live in the house for the rest of her life";
   - stipulate, condition, specify
    
6. Describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of
   "You can qualify his behaviour as that of an egotist";
   - characterize, characterise [Brit]
    
7. (grammar) add a modifier to a constituent
   "The writer qualified the noun with an adjective to provide more detail";
   - modify

See also: competent, conditional, eligible, hedged, measure, modified, registered, weasel-worded, well-qualified

Type of: add, answer, contract, do, groom, judge, label, modify, prepare, pronounce, remember, serve, suffice, think of, train, undertake

Antonym: disqualify, unqualified

Encyclopedia: Qualified