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

Derived forms: qualified, qualifying, qualifies

See also: measure

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

Antonym: disqualify

Encyclopedia: Qualify