ineligible
/ɪnˈɛlɪdʒɪb(ə)l
/adjective
1Legally or officially unable to be considered for a position or benefit: they were ineligible for jury service...
- Numerous additional workers are ruled ineligible for any benefits at all under arbitrary regulations that vary from state to state.
- This makes it officially ineligible for next year's Booker.
- You may be ineligible for other federal benefit programs.
Synonyms
unqualified, ruled out, disqualified, legally disqualified, disentitled;
Law incompetent
1.1 dated Not suitable or desirable, especially as a marriage partner: as a son-in-law he was quite ineligible
Derivatives
ineligibility
/ noun ...- However, postponement, injury, ineligibility, and finally his no-show had prevented him making his 100th appearance since then.
- We just want to continue to eat dinner without napkins and sleep on the couch and wallow in vigorous bachelor ineligibility.
- As I have said, I consider that there is a strong case for removal of all the categories of ineligibility based on occupation.
ineligibly
- I don't want people saying we ineligibly won the league our first year and taint any kind of victory.
- Courses taken ineligibly are not used in the degree program.
- The district is responsible for any and all funds that might be spent ineligibly.
- proctorial cycle
- proctorially
- proctorial veto
- proctorial year
- proctorization
- Proctor method
- Proctor number
- Proctor order
- proctorrhagia
- proctor's bulldog
- proctorship
- Proctor's order
- Proctor, William Cooper
- proctoscope
- proctoscopy
- proctosigmoidoscope
- proctosigmoidoscopic
- proctosigmoidoscopy
- proctotomy
- proctotrupid
- proctotrupoid
- proctotrypid
- proctotrypoid
- proctress
- procumbency