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qualifier

[ kwol-uh-fahy-er ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person or thing that qualifies.
Grammar.
1. a word that qualifies the meaning of another, as an adjective or adverb; modifier.
2. an adverb that modifies adjectives or other adverbs and typically expresses degree or intensity, as very, somewhat, or quite.

First recorded in 1555–65; qualify + -er ¹

Here, the researchers, in classic academese, add a final qualifier.

Emily added that she regrets using the qualifier of "absolutely" (which we should have caught on the editing end).

The council says its goal is ultimately that the qualifier “women” be dropped from its name.

By this qualifier we wish it understood that mind, like body, has its accidental or acquired qualities.

Literacy as such was registered rather late as a qualifier of the warrior.

Some are identified as dictatorships of some sort, which almost none would accept as a qualifier.

Sharing is the ultimate qualifier for a sign, especially for a language.

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