ineligible

See also: inéligible

English

Etymology

From French inéligible

Adjective

ineligible (comparative more ineligible, superlative most ineligible)

Not eligible; forbidden to do something.
Employees of the promoter are ineligible to enter the competition.

Synonyms

unqualified

Antonyms

eligible

Related terms

Translations

not eligible; forbidden to do something

Bulgarian: неподходящ (bg) (nepodhodjašt), неприемлив (bg) (nepriemliv)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 沒有資格的 (méiyǒu zīgé de), 不合格的 (bù hégé de)
Finnish: kelpaamaton (fi)
French: inéligible (fr)
German: untauglich (de)

Interlingua: ineligibile
Italian: ineleggibile
Japanese: 無資格の (ja) (mushikaku no), 不適任な (futekinin na), できない (dekinai)
Serbo-Croatian: neovlašten (sh)
Spanish: inelegible

Noun

ineligible (plural ineligibles)

One who is not eligible.
- 2002, Martin Feldstein, ‎A. J. Auerbach, Handbook of Public Economics (page 1227)
  However, migration of workers from the ineligible population into the eligible population also changes the composition of the ineligibles.

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