Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Lacking the proper or required qualifications: unqualified for the job.
- adj. Not modified by conditions or reservations; absolute: an unqualified refusal.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not qualified; not fit; not having the requisite talents, abilities, or accomplishments.
- Not qualified legally; not having the legal qualifications; specifically, not having taken the requisite oath or oaths; not having passed the necessary examinations and received a diploma or license: as, an unqualified practitioner of medicine.
- Not modified or restricted by conditions or exceptions; absolute: as, unqualified praise.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not qualified, ineligible, unfit for a position or task.
- adj. Not elaborated upon, undescribed.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having no right or entitlement
- adj. legally not qualified or sufficient
- adj. not meeting the proper standards and requirements and training
- adj. not limited or restricted
Etymologies
- un- + qualified. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The Pan Africanist Congress on Wednesday condemned former president Nelson Mandela for what it termed his unqualified support for the United States '"naked aggression" in Afghanistan.”
“I cannot say that I am in unqualified agreement with this complaint.”
“I wonder how many of those calling her unqualified are actual judges who were vetted by the administration for a position on the court?”
“Not only is Sarah Palin unqualified for the Presidency, she continues to embarass herself with opinions and criticism of the current administration on issues she knows very little about.”
Poll: Majority of Republicans don't think Palin's qualified for prez
“In public education today, unqualified is the new qualified.”
The Huffington Post: Gary Stager: Wanna be a School Reformer? You Better do Your Homework!
“Steve Clemons wonders if Kennedy isn't just plain unqualified for the job:”
“We cannot support Obama, who aside from being grossly unqualified, is a proven racist, a hypocrite, and a pathological liar.”
“She's basically said he's unqualified, is elitist, and "as far as I know" may be a muslim.”
“He was unqualified from the start, he admitted so.”
Think Progress » Early Media Coverage of Goss’s Resignation Dances Around Cunningham Scandal
“It is significant that Dr. McDougall, one of the few modern psychologists who has written on the social psychology of war, refers to Bagehot's "brilliant essay" (McDougall, Social Psychology, p. 283, on the Instinct of Pugnacity); while Professor J. Shield Nicholson writing during the war (Economic Journal, Dec. 1914, p. 548) refers in unqualified terms to Bagehot's "perennial freshness.”
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