qualifying

The word “qualifying” has 4 syllables: qual-i-fy-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈkwɒlɪfaɪɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for qualifying?

In the thesaurus, “qualifying” has 125 synonyms and 46 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for qualifying along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for qualifying

  • accrediting
  • accustoming
  • adapting
  • adjusting
  • affirming
  • allowing
  • altering
  • approving
  • authorizing
  • basic
  • bracketed
  • by the way
  • certificating
  • certifying
  • chartering
  • clearing
  • coloring
  • commissioning
  • compensating
  • compensatory
  • conditioning
  • condoning
  • confirming
  • credentialing
  • credentialling
  • diminishing
  • distorting
  • educating
  • elemental
  • elementary
  • empowering
  • enabling
  • endorsing
  • enfranchising
  • entitling
  • episodic
  • equipping
  • explanatory
  • exploratory
  • extenuating
  • extenuatory
  • extraneous
  • extrinsic
  • first
  • fitting
  • fundamental
  • grooming
  • habituating
  • in parenthesis
  • inaugurating
  • incidental
  • indoctrinating
  • indorsing
  • inducting
  • inductive
  • initiating
  • initiatory
  • inserted
  • installing
  • instating
  • instructing
  • intermediate
  • interposed
  • introductory
  • investing
  • justifying
  • legitimizing
  • lessening
  • letting
  • licencing
  • licensing
  • misrepresenting
  • misstating
  • mitigating
  • moderating
  • modifying
  • narrowing
  • okaying
  • opening
  • palliating
  • permitting
  • perverting
  • pilot
  • preceding
  • precursory
  • prefatory
  • preparation
  • preparatory
  • preparing
  • primal
  • primary
  • prior
  • privileging
  • ratifying
  • reaccrediting
  • readying
  • reapproving
  • recertifying
  • rechartering
  • redemptive
  • reducing
  • related
  • revalidating
  • sanctioning
  • sanitizing
  • saving
  • schooling
  • seasoning
  • shaping
  • softening
  • subordinate
  • swearing in
  • tailoring
  • teaching
  • test
  • training
  • trial
  • tutoring
  • twisting
  • validating
  • varnishing
  • vesting
  • warping
  • warranting
  • whitewashing

Antonyms for qualifying

  • additional
  • banning
  • barring
  • basic
  • blocking
  • broadening
  • closing
  • concluding
  • consequential
  • constraining
  • decertifying
  • delegitimizing
  • denying
  • disabling
  • disallowing
  • disbarring
  • discouraging
  • disempowering
  • disenfranchising
  • disfranchising
  • disqualifying
  • enjoining
  • excluding
  • expanding
  • extra
  • final
  • forbidding
  • hindering
  • holding back
  • impeding
  • important
  • inhibiting
  • interdicting
  • invalidating
  • nullifying
  • obstructing
  • outlawing
  • preventing
  • prohibiting
  • proscribing
  • secondary
  • shutting out
  • stopping
  • vetoing
  • vital
  • widening

Meanings of qualifying

  • verb
    1. To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
    2. To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task.
    3. To certify or license someone for something.
    4. To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
    5. To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.
    6. To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
    7. To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
    8. To throw and catch each object at least twice.
  • noun
    1. A qualification or added condition.
    2. An examination that must be taken in order to qualify.

Example Sentences

  • She is focusing on her performance in the qualifying rounds to secure a spot in the tournament.
  • The stringent requirements are necessary for qualifying candidates for the prestigious award.
  • The team is practicing diligently ahead of the crucial qualifying match.
  • The scholarship has specific criteria for qualifying applicants based on academic achievements.
  • Qualifying for the championship race is a significant achievement for the young racer.

On this page you'll find 171 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to qualifying, such as: accrediting, accustoming, adapting, additional, adjusting, affirming, allowing.

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accrediting

  • accepting
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  • credentialing
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  • deifying
  • emblazoning
  • empowering
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  • enfranchising
  • entitling
  • eulogizing
  • extolling
  • favoring
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  • idolizing
  • imputing
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  • indorsing
  • inducting
  • initialing
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  • initiating
  • installing
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  • investing
  • lauding
  • laying
  • legalizing
  • letting
  • licencing
  • licensing
  • linking
  • magnifying
  • okaying
  • overpraising
  • passing
  • permitting
  • praising
  • privileging
  • putting down
  • qualifying
  • ratifying
  • reapproving
  • recommending
  • referring
  • rubber-stamping
  • saluting
  • sanctifying
  • sanctioning
  • signing
  • singing
  • supporting
  • swearing in
  • touting
  • validating
  • vesting
  • warranting

decertifying

  • delegitimizing
  • disabling
  • disallowing
  • disempowering
  • disenfranchising
  • disqualifying
  • forbidding
  • invalidating
  • nullifying
  • proscribing

earning

easing

  • abatement
  • abating
  • abbreviating
  • abetting
  • abridging
  • acceding
  • accelerating
  • accommodation
  • adjustment
  • advancing
  • aiding
  • allaying
  • alleviating
  • alleviation
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  • clipping
  • collapsing
  • compressing
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  • condensing
  • consolatory
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  • constricting
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  • curing
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  • deflating
  • denting
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  • mechanical
  • meliorating
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  • mollification
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  • motorized
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  • pacifying
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  • retrenching
  • robotic
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  • settlement
  • shortening
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  • solace
  • soothing
  • speeding
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  • subsiding
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  • tempering
  • time-saving
  • tranquilization
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  • trimming
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  • unbinding
  • unclogging
  • undoing
  • unfastening
  • untangling
  • untieing
  • untying
  • vanishing
  • waning
  • warming
  • weakening
  • whittling

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