Unqualified
[ʌn'kwɒlɪfaɪd] or [,ʌn'kwɑlɪfaɪd]
Definition
(adj.) not meeting the proper standards and requirements and training .
(adj.) not limited or restricted; 'an unqualified denial' .
Checker: Victoria--From WordNet
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Incompetent, unfit, unadapted.[2]. Absolute, unconditional, unmeasured, unrestricted, thorough, plump, full, direct, downright.[3]. Exaggerated, sweeping.
Typed by Lloyd
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Absolute, unconditioned, outright,[See_PROFITABLE]
Typist: Shirley
Definition
adj. not possessing the proper qualifications for anything incompetent: given without restrictions absolute.—adv. Unqual′ifiedly.—n. Unqual′ifiedness.—v.t. Unqual′ify to disqualify.
Editor: Roxanne
Examples
- This appearance excited our unqualified wonder. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I had been hitherto, all my life, a stranger to courts, for which I was unqualified by the meanness of my condition. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- But he did not receive it with unqualified assent; on the contrary, he said, No, gentlemen, no; let them not misunderstand him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- That perilous passion--an agony ever in some of its phases; with many, an agony throughout--is believed to be an unqualified good. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They were naturally inflated by their sweeping unqualified successes in war, and by their rapid progress from comparative poverty to wealth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Luttrell looked with unqualified contempt on his lordship. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Sir Thomas could not give so instantaneous and unqualified a consent. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He seated himself near Sophia, ever certain of her unqualified approbation at all events. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He was not intending, however, by such action, to be conveying to her that unqualified approbation and encouragement which her hopes drew from it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
Editor: Roxanne