ineligible
not eligible; not permitted or suitable: Employees are ineligible in this contest.
legally disqualified to hold an office.
legally disqualified to function as a juror, voter, witness, etc., or to become the recipient of a privilege.
a person who is ineligible, as a suitor or team member.
Origin of ineligible
1Other words for ineligible
1 | disqualified, unsuitable |
Other words from ineligible
- in·el·i·gi·bil·i·ty, in·el·i·gi·ble·ness, noun
- in·el·i·gi·bly, adverb
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How to use ineligible in a sentence
Dozens of Montgomery County residents who are ineligible for the vaccine under current guidelines tried to receive the vaccine Wednesday and Thursday, officials said.
D.C. will resume indoor dining Friday as coronavirus cases hover at elevated levels | Julie Zauzmer, Rebecca Tan, Erin Cox, Gregory S. Schneider | January 22, 2021 | Washington PostNorthwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, one of the institutions that had deemed Orellana Garcia ineligible for a transplant, took a second look, asking Rogers for information and paperwork.
Covid-19 destroyed a young man’s lungs. Can his foster mom let him go? | Steve Thompson | January 19, 2021 | Washington PostHowever, Diane Auer Jones, the Education Department’s point person on higher education policy, told several higher education groups on Monday that the agency still views undocumented and international students as ineligible for aid.
Colleges, students will have easier access to second round of stimulus funds, but bureaucracy remains | Danielle Douglas-Gabriel | January 15, 2021 | Washington PostThe inspector general’s office reached that conclusion by comparing a list of PPP loan recipients with the Treasury Department’s Do Not Pay list, a compilation of individuals and entities ineligible to receive federal payments.
Round 2 of PPP loans could be open to even more fraud | Geoffrey Colvin | January 13, 2021 | FortuneInconclusive test results, exposure to an outside party who has tested positive and contact tracing are all reasons players from around the league have been ruled ineligible to play.
Wizards, with two players in coronavirus protocols, cancel practice | Ava Wallace | January 12, 2021 | Washington Post
Today it would be considered a felony, classifying him as a “two-timer” and therefore ineligible for special release.
When they do leave prison, these men are largely unemployable and ineligible to vote, and often end up back in the system.
A Republican activist filed a complaint that Perez was ineligible because he had only joined the Maryland bar in 2001.
Frontrunner for Attorney General Was Thrown Off Ballot for A.G. of Maryland | Ben Jacobs | October 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYou should already see where this is going: Existing black neighborhoods were lined as unsafe, and thus ineligible for financing.
Any person found to use multiple Twitter usernames or multiple Twitter updates to enter will be ineligible.
No evidence exists that there was ever any law making a Roman tribune ineligible for relection.
The Two Great Republics: Rome and the United States | James Hamilton LewisMr. Jefferson was inclined at first to have the President elected for seven years, and be thereafter ineligible.
Thomas Jefferson | Edward S. Ellis et. al.Perhaps he would like a list of the ineligible young men in the neighbourhood?
A Country Gentleman and his Family | Mrs. (Margaret) OliphantThat she may have to marry a more ineligible person than the one refused is here implied.
The Proverbs of Scotland | Alexander HislopHe was thrown into prison and, in 1572, was sentenced to penance and reclusion, thus rendering him ineligible.
A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 4 | Henry Charles Lea
British Dictionary definitions for ineligible
/ (ɪnˈɛlɪdʒəbəl) /
(often foll by for or an infinitive) not fit or qualified: ineligible for a grant; ineligible to vote
an ineligible person
Derived forms of ineligible
- ineligibility or ineligibleness, noun
- ineligibly, adverb
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