MEANING
1. to limit or modify a statement so that it applies more precisely
2. To meet, or make someone meet, the requirements for a role, activity, or entitlement.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- qualify a claim
- qualify the conclusion
- qualify an assertion
On the page
The authors qualify their conclusion by noting the small sample.
These exceptions qualify the claim that growth benefits everyone.
The final paragraph qualifies an otherwise sweeping judgment.
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Word forms
- Base
- qualify / qualifies
- Past tense
- qualified
- Past participle
- qualified
- Present participle
- qualifying
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- qualify / qualifies
- Present continuous
- am/is/are qualifying
- Present perfect
- have/has qualified
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been qualifying
- Past
- qualified
- Past continuous
- was/were qualifying
- Past perfect
- had qualified
- Past perfect continuous
- had been qualifying
- Future
- will qualify / qualifies
- Future continuous
- will be qualifying
- Future perfect
- will have qualified
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been qualifying
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Usage notes
Primary curation section: Academic. Qualifying a claim is not necessarily retracting it; it marks conditions or exceptions. qualify; qualifies; qualified; qualified; qualifying. Related noun: qualification.
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