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unqualified

adjectiveB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,474 of 15,258neutral

Unqualified means without the training needed, or complete and without reservation. An unqualified teacher, an unqualified success, unqualified support.

The two senses pull in opposite directions, and only the noun tells you which is meant. An unqualified success is a total one, while an unqualified practitioner is a problem.

Definitions of unqualified

  1. 1adjectiveunqualifiedWithout the training needed, or complete and without reservation.B2+

    “The clinic was closed after it emerged that the dentist was unqualified.”

unqualified is a quality.

Where it comes from

From un- + qualified.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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unqualified in the wild

  • The unqualified term diagonal dominance can mean both strict and weak diagonal dominance, depending on the context.

    Diagonally dominant matrix

  • After the ABA reported both Friday and Lillie as "unqualified", Nixon nominated Lewis Powell and William H.

    Richard Nixon judicial appointment controversies

  • In most systems of academic ranks, "professor" as an unqualified title refers only to the most senior academic position, sometimes informally known as "full professor".

    Professor

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.