ineligible

Speech parts

1. ineligible - Noun

2. ineligible - Adjective

3. ineligible - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not eligible; not qualified to be chosen for an office; not worthy to be chosen or prefered; not expedient or desirable.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

unqualified unbecoming impermissible unable bad wrong banned inadequate ineffective incompatible incapable inappropriate unacceptable improper unfit
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Antonyms

eligible right good best better becoming
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Phrases with the word

declare ineligible be ineligible

Examples

ineligible to vote Source: Internet

ineligible for retirement benefits Source: Internet

an ineligible pass receiver Source: Internet

Age restrictions were in place with thirty years as a minimum, rendering about a third of the adult citizen body ineligible at any one time. Source: Internet

Although the issue of morganatic marriages were ineligible to succeed to their families' respective thrones, children of morganatic marriages have gone on to achieve dynastic success elsewhere in Europe. Source: Internet

After the Elector of Trier had demanded that the townsmen turn a Lutheran preacher out of the town, a board made up of townsmen who were ineligible for council functions handed the council a 30-point comprehensive list of demands on 24 May. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

inelegantly inelidable ineligibility ineligibleness ineligibly ineliminable