ineligible

See also: inéligible

English

Etymology

From French inéligible.

Adjective

ineligible (comparative more ineligible, superlative most ineligible)

1. Not eligible; forbidden to do something.

   Employees of the promoter are ineligible to enter the competition.

Synonyms

• unqualified

Antonyms

• eligible

Related terms

• ineligibility
• ineligibly
• unlicensed

Translations

not eligible; forbidden to do something

• Bulgarian: неподходящ (bg) (nepodhodjašt), неприемлив (bg) (nepriemliv)
• Catalan: inelegible
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沒有資格的／没有资格的 (méiyǒu zīgé de), 不合格的 (bù hégé de)

• Finnish: kelpaamaton (fi)
• French: inéligible (fr)
• Galician: inelixible (gl)
• German: untauglich (de)
• Hungarian: nem jogosult, számba​/​szóba nem jöhető, nem megfelelő, el nem fogadható, alkalmatlan (hu), elfogadhatatlan (hu), kizárt (hu)
• Interlingua: ineligibile
• Italian: ineleggibile
• Japanese: 無資格の (ja) (mushikaku no), 不適任な (futekinin na), できない (ja) (dekinai)
• Portuguese: inelegível (pt)
• Serbo-Croatian: neovlašten (sh)
• Spanish: inelegible
• Urdu: نااہل (nāahal)

Noun

ineligible (plural ineligibles)

1. One who is not eligible.
   • 2002, Martin Feldstein, A. J. Auerbach, Handbook of Public Economics, page 1227:

     However, migration of workers from the ineligible population into the eligible population also changes the composition of the ineligibles.