as in disqualified
not allowed to do or be something
Previously ineligible patients may now be able to participate in the study. She was ineligible for the contest.
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Recent Examples of ineligible
By signing the contract, Misa is now ineligible to play at the NCAA level.
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Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
Just note that these little creatures are final sale items and are therefore ineligible for returns.
—Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 10 Sep. 2025
The teen was booked into the Ramsey County Juvenile Detention Center on suspicion of possession of a firearm by an ineligible person.
—Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 9 Sep. 2025
Campbell’s office only deemed three measures ineligible this cycle.
—State House News Service, Boston Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
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Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
Just note that these little creatures are final sale items and are therefore ineligible for returns.
—Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 10 Sep. 2025
The teen was booked into the Ramsey County Juvenile Detention Center on suspicion of possession of a firearm by an ineligible person.
—Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 9 Sep. 2025
Campbell’s office only deemed three measures ineligible this cycle.
—State House News Service, Boston Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ineligible
Adjective
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Patterson was charged with one count of election fraud — voting by disqualified person, which is a Class I felony and punishable by not more than $10,000, or imprisoned up to 3½ years, or both.—
Drake Bentley,
jsonline.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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The rules will apply to any student loan payments made after July 1, 2026, so borrowers working for disqualified employers will not have any of their payments counted toward loan forgiveness if they’re made after that date.—
Alison Durkee,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Lee would sometimes visit Anderson at the Highland Chateau health and rehabilitation center in Highland Park, where she had been relocated with some objection after her Surrey Avenue property was deemed unfit for human habitation.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
10 Sep. 2025
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Detroit RUNDetroit, 1948 Division St Suite 105, collects old shoes for Zaman International, who will reporpose gently used pairs or recycle unfit shoes, according to RUNDetroit's Instagram.—
Natalie Davies,
Freep.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Mix Materials The beauty in the unfitted kitchen aesthetic is found in its collected look.—
Patricia Shannon,
Better Homes & Gardens,
6 May 2025
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The venerable American clan at the center of the narrator’s reminiscences are wholly unfitted to the modern world and no longer endowed with the fortune that one of them brought home long ago on clipper ships.—
Daniel Akst,
WSJ,
2 Sep. 2022
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“Ineligible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineligible. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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