verb
Meaning 1
To make ineligible for something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- My age disqualifies me for the position.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
disqualify
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /dɪsˈkwɒlɪfaɪ/
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US: /dɪsˈkwɔləfaɪ/
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CMU ARPABET: D IH0 S K W AA1 L AH0 F AY2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To exclude from consideration by the explicit revocation of a previous qualification.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- The athlete was disqualified after performance-enhancing drugs were found in his hotel room.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
make unfit or unsuitable
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Your income disqualifies you
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: unfit, indispose
Antonyms: qualify
Broader terms: change, alter, modify
verb
Meaning 4
declare unfit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She was disqualified for the Olympics because she was a professional athlete
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: qualify
Broader terms: pronounce, label, judge
Narrower terms: recuse, disbar
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh1 Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des-bor. ▲ Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English qualify English disqualify From dis- + qualify.
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: дисквалифицирам (diskvalificiram) — make ineligible
- Bulgarian: лишавам от права (lišavam ot prava) — make ineligible
- Catalan: desqualificar — make ineligible
- Chinese Mandarin: 取消資格 /取消资格 (qǔxiāo zīgé) — make ineligible
- Czech: diskvalifikovat — make ineligible
- Danish: diskvalificere — make ineligible
- Dutch: diskwalificeren — make ineligible
- Finnish: sulkea pois — make ineligible
- Finnish: estää — make ineligible
- French: disqualifier — make ineligible
- German: disqualifizieren — make ineligible
- Greenlandic: ilaajunnaarsippaa — make ineligible
- Ido: nekapabligar — make ineligible
- Irish: dícháiligh — make ineligible
- Italian: dequalificare — make ineligible
- Māori: whakakore — make ineligible
- Māori: whakakorekore — make ineligible
- Māori: whākorekore — make ineligible
- Norwegian Bokmål: diskvalifisere — make ineligible
- Norwegian Nynorsk: diskvalifisera — make ineligible
- Polish: dyskwalifikować — make ineligible
- Portuguese: desqualificar — make ineligible
- Portuguese: desclassificar — make ineligible
- Russian: дисквалифицировать (diskvalificirovatʹ) — make ineligible
- Russian: лиша́ть права́ (lišátʹ pravá) — make ineligible
- Serbo-Croatian: diskvalificirati — make ineligible
- Serbo-Croatian: diskvalifikovati — make ineligible
- Spanish: descalificar — make ineligible
- Spanish: desclasificar — make ineligible
- Spanish: descualificar — make ineligible
- Swedish: diskvalificera — make ineligible
- Swedish: diska — make ineligible
- Urdu: نااہل قرار دینا (nāahal qarār denā) — make ineligible
- Welsh: anghymhwyso — make ineligible