ineligible

See also: inéligible

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French inéligible

Adjective

ineligible (comparative more ineligible, superlative most ineligible)

1. Not eligible; forbidden to do something.

   Employees of the promoter are ineligible to enter the competition.

Synonyms

• unqualified

Antonyms

• eligible

Related terms

• ineligibility
• ineligibly
• unlicensed

Translations

not eligible; forbidden to do something

• Bulgarian: неподходящ (bg) (nepodhodjašt), неприемлив (bg) (nepriemliv)
• Catalan: inelegible
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沒有資格的／没有资格的 (méiyǒu zīgé de), 不合格的 (bù hégé de)

• Finnish: kelpaamaton (fi)
• French: inéligible (fr)
• Galician: inelixible (gl)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: untauglich (de)
• Interlingua: ineligibile
• Italian: ineleggibile
• Japanese: 無資格の (ja) (mushikaku no), 不適任な (futekinin na), できない (dekinai)
• Portuguese: inelegível (pt)
• Serbo-Croatian: neovlašten (sh)
• Spanish: inelegible

Noun

ineligible (plural ineligibles)

1. One who is not eligible.
   • 2002, Martin Feldstein, ‎A. J. Auerbach, Handbook of Public Economics (page 1227)

     However, migration of workers from the ineligible population into the eligible population also changes the composition of the ineligibles.