eligible

English

Etymology

From Middle French eligible, from Latin eligibilis, from ēligō (“select, choose”)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈelɪdʒəbl/

Adjective

eligible (comparative more eligible, superlative most eligible)

1. suitable; meeting the conditions; worthy of being chosen

Usage notes

Used in the phrase eligible bachelor to mean “desirable male”, the corresponding term for a woman is nubile.

Antonyms

• ineligible

Translations

suitable

• Bulgarian: приемлив, подходящ (bg) (priemliv, podhodjašt)
• Finnish: sovelias (fi), sopiva (fi), kelvollinen (fi)
• German: erwünscht (de)
• Hiligaynon: dápat
• Interlingua: eligibile (ia)
• Japanese: 適格な (ja) (てきかくな, tekikakuna), 選ぶに値する (えらぶにあたいする, erabu ni ataisuru)
• Korean: 적격의 (ko) (適格의, jeokgyeogui), 적임의 (ko) (適任의, jeogimui)

• Manx: yn-reih (gv)
• Norwegian: valgbar (no), egna (no)
• Polish: gotowy (pl) m
• Romanian: eligibil (ro) m and n
• Russian: годный, пригодный, желательный, подходящий, приемлемый
• Serbo-Croatian: pogodan (sh), poželjan (sh), podoban (sh), prikladan (sh)
• Telugu: తగిన (te) (tagina)

Noun

eligible (plural eligibles)

1. One who is eligible.
   • 2007 October 3, Diane Ravitch, “Get Congress Out of the Classroom”, New York Times:

     Federal agencies report that only about 1 percent of eligible students take advantage of switching schools and fewer than 20 percent of eligibles receive extra tutoring.