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ineligible
[ in-el-i-juh-buhl ]
adjective
- not eligible; not permitted or suitable:
Employees are ineligible in this contest.
Synonyms: unsuitable
- legally disqualified to hold an office.
- legally disqualified to function as a juror, voter, witness, etc., or to become the recipient of a privilege.
noun
- a person who is ineligible, as a suitor or team member.
ineligible
/ ɪnˈɛlɪdʒəbəl /
adjective
- often foll byfor or an infinitive not fit or qualified
ineligible to vote
ineligible for a grant
noun
- an ineligible person
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Derived Forms
- inˌeligiˈbility, noun
- inˈeligibly, adverb
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Other Words From
- in·eli·gi·bili·ty in·eli·gi·ble·ness noun
- in·eli·gi·bly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ineligible1
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Example Sentences
Dozens of Montgomery County residents who are ineligible for the vaccine under current guidelines tried to receive the vaccine Wednesday and Thursday, officials said.
Northwestern 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.
However, 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.
The 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.
Inconclusive 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.
Discount his two years with the Miami Dolphins, which rendered him ineligible for closing night, and that’s nine of 16.
The Broncos lost a game to the New Orleans Saints, 31-3, last month in Denver after having all four of the quarterbacks on their roster ruled ineligible through one positive test and three high-risk close contacts.
That nearly half the country should vote — including those too young or otherwise ineligible — is remarkable.
The NFL proceeded with the game and, according to the person close to the situation, there were “no other issues” immediately with Ravens players being ruled ineligible or placed in quarantine because of contact tracing.
If you get unemployment benefits, your employer usually has the right to file its own appeal if it believes you are ineligible.
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.
You 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.
The Tab points out that Prince William is ineligible for a student loan, as he has already completed a degree at St Andrews.
Zelaya, known to Hondurans as "Mel," failed in his bid to return to power and was ineligible to run for president.
Scarlett Johansson's voice is ineligible for a Golden Globe nomination.
Any person found to use multiple Twitter usernames to enter will be ineligible.
Legalize the people who are already here, with a permanent guest worker program, but make them ineligible for citizenship.
Their refusal to admit their "guilt" gets them longer sentences and often makes them ineligible for parole.
Chief among them, the fact that she is ineligible to inherit the Downton Abbey estate.
That means households which were previously ineligible to receive SNAP benefits may now receive them.
He also said the Nittany Lions are ineligible to play in postseason games for the next four years.
Those who fail are ineligible to receive government aid for a year.
The tabloid stories that her adultery with Neal Schon now makes her ineligible for any of the Salahi money seem laughable.
Those lacking higher education find themselves ineligible for promotion, herded to lesser career tracks.
Now, The Book of Mormon has 14 nods while Spider-Man was rendered ineligible by its constantly changing opening date.
Auburn did declare Newton ineligible at the end of November, pending a ruling by the NCAA after the allegations surfaced.
Obama's Muslimization is a way to render him ineligible, culturally, to be an American president.
No evidence exists that there was ever any law making a Roman tribune ineligible for relection.
Mr. Jefferson was inclined at first to have the President elected for seven years, and be thereafter ineligible.
Perhaps he would like a list of the ineligible young men in the neighbourhood?
That she may have to marry a more ineligible person than the one refused is here implied.
He was thrown into prison and, in 1572, was sentenced to penance and reclusion, thus rendering him ineligible.
Indirect taxes, however ineligible, will doubtless be cheerfully paid as war taxes, if necessary.
One scheme went through numerous modifications before it was proved to be ineligible, or before it yielded place to a better.
That in 1877 the British Medical Association declared women ineligible for membership?
Sailing-ships of above fifteen years of age were ineligible to these bounties; so also were mail-route steamers.
This distinction alone would prove that other clerks were not ineligible to office.
I feel a deep and deliberate conviction that there are many cases in which the trial by jury is an ineligible one.
If they wanted a President they could have it, provided they should make him ineligible at the end of four years.
Has anyone done anything, or does anyone know anything, that might make one of our contestants ineligible?
He must be a man above suspicion, incapable of wrong or fraud, and once stained he was forever ineligible as a gentleman.
In all classes the executive officer is a mayor elected for four years and ineligible to succeed himself.
The President of the United States should be elected for a term of seven years, and be ineligible to reëlection.
That wretch is trying to put Nathan in prison so as to make him ineligible to stand against him in the electoral college.
All its members were declared ineligible for a seat in the legislature that was to replace them.
Uricsol is held ineligible to inclusion in New and Nonofficial Remedies.
When they have done all they can to persuade people to vote, have they the right to consider themselves ineligible?
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