eligible
Allowed to and meeting the necessary conditions required to participate in or be chosen for something.
Adjective
- Allowed to and meeting the necessary conditions required to participate in or be chosen for something.
Synonyms: choosable licensed qualified
Antonyms: ineligible unqualified
- Worthy of being chosen (for marriage).
Origin
From Middle French eligible, from Latin eligibilis, from ēligō (“to select, to choose”).
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eligibleness noneligible reeligible semieligible semi-eligible supereligible ultraeligible uneligible
Noun
- One who is eligible.
- Federal agencies report that only about 1 percent of eligible students take advantage of switching schools and fewer than 20 percent of eligibles receive extra tutoring. - 2007 October 3, Diane Ravitch, “Get Congress...