unqualified

English

Etymology 1

From un- +‎ qualified.

Adjective

unqualified (comparative more unqualified, superlative most unqualified)

2. Not qualified: ineligible; unfit for a position or task.

   Synonyms: ineligible, nonqualified

   Antonyms: competent, eligible, qualified

   His lack of a high school diploma renders him unqualified for the job.

   • 2024 November 17, Howie Klein, “A Plurality Of American Voters Have Embraced Kakistocracy As Their Preferred Form Of Governance”, in DownWithTyranny‎^[1]:

     An obvious characteristic of a kakistocrat is inserting unqualified loyalists into positions of power. Nepotism and kakistocracy go hand-in-hand.

4. Not elaborated upon; undescribed; unrestricted.

   Synonym: undescribed

   Antonyms: described, qualified

   The right to free speech is well established as not being an unqualified right to violent incitement nor to free amplification.

   • 2008, Transparency, Information and Communication Technology: Social Responsibility and Accountability in Business and Education:

     Obviously, we must reject the existence of an unqualified or unspecified right to know. If the right to know did not require disclosure of only specific (types of) data or information, a person could be said to have a right to know just anything whatsoever.

   • 2016 February 5, Caner K Dagli, Ibn al-'Arabī and Islamic Intellectual Culture: From Mysticism to Philosophy, Routledge, →ISBN:

     […] there is a multiplicity in the unqualified or unspecified concept of “soul,” such that it still retains its real meaning but by its very definition is predicated of different levels of things, at least in the classical conception of “soul.”

6. Outright; thorough; utter; unhampered.

   an unqualified success

   • 1857, Irish Literary Gazette:

     Gibson is an unqualified fool, and only fit to mix with beasts of the same calibre; […]

   • {{quote-journal|en|year=1962|month=July|title=Failured of multiple-unit electric trains on British Railways|journal=Modern Railways|page=53|text=The silicon rectifiers installed in the 42 English Electric-equipped units of the Shenfield augmentation stock have proved an #:
     It'll be an unqualified success or an unmitigated disaster, no happy medium.

Derived terms

• unqualified hostname
• unqualified prospect

Translations

ineligible, not qualified

• Bulgarian: негоден (bg) (negoden)
• Danish: ukvalificeret
• Finnish: epäpätevä (fi)
• French: non qualifié
• German: unqualifiziert
• Greek: ακατάρτιστος (el) (akatártistos)
• Japanese: 失格の (ja) (shikkaku no), 無資格の (ja) (mushikaku no)
• Manx: neuaarlit, anchooie (da)
• Maori: māraurau-kore
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ukvalifisert

  Nynorsk: ukvalifisert

• Polish: niewykwalifikowany (pl)
• Romanian: necalificat (ro), incompetent (ro), necompetent (ro)
• Russian: неквалифицированный (ru) (nekvalificirovannyj)
• Spanish: no cualificado

undescribed

• Bulgarian: неоспорим (bg) (neosporim)
• German: unqualifiziert
• Romanian: nestudiat, necercetat
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: неоспособљен

  Roman: neosposobljen

• Spanish: incondicional (es)

See also

• (unhampered): unasterisked

Etymology 2

From unqualify +‎ -ed.

Verb

unqualified

1. simple past and past participle of unqualify