What does qualified mean?
Word: Qualified
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Qualified means having passed the exams or training needed for a job or activity. As a verb, it is the past tense of qualify, as in 'Our team qualified for the final'.
Synonyms: trained, certified, eligible, skilled
Antonyms: unqualified
How do you spell qualified?
Syllables: qual - i - fied
Tricky part: Qualify ends in y, which changes to i before ed. The l is single.
Watch out for: qualifyed, quallified
Memory tip: The y of qualify turns into i before ed, as in try, tried and carry, carried.
Qualified in a sentence
Example 1: Only a qualified pilot may fly a passenger plane.
Example 2: Our school team qualified for the national quiz.
Example 3: She is a qualified yoga teacher.
Fun Fact
Qualify goes back to the Latin qualis, meaning of what kind - to qualify is to show you are the right kind for something.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word 'qualified' as used in the sentence:
Only a qualified electrician should repair the wiring in the old school building.
a) careful
b) local
c) experienced
d) untrained
Show answer
d) untrained. A qualified electrician has passed the training; an untrained one has not, while the other three say nothing against it.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct letters to form a word:
qu_l_fied
a) a, i
b) o, i
c) a, e
d) e, i
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a) a, i. After qu comes a, and the vowel straight after the l is i.
Mingle-Mangle
Unjumble the letters in the sentence and choose the word they make:
Our hockey team has fiqueladi for the state finals in Bhopal.
a) qualified
b) liquefied
c) qualifier
d) quantified
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a) qualified. Quantified needs n and t, qualifier ends in r, and liquefied has no a, so only qualified uses these nine letters.
Spell-o-Spell
Only one word in the list is spelt correctly. Choose the meaning of that word.
1. interveiw 2. qualified 3. collegue 4. experiance
a) a meeting where someone is asked questions, often for a job
b) knowledge or skill gained by doing something
c) a person you work with
d) having passed the training or exams needed for a job
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d) having passed the training or exams needed for a job. Look for the slips: experience ends in ence, colleague has an a after the e, and interview puts i before e.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of these people must be qualified before starting work?
a) a passenger
b) a surgeon
c) a spectator
d) a shopper
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b) a surgeon
2. If a school fair was only a qualified success, it ____.
a) was run by experts
b) was a complete failure
c) made a record profit
d) went well in some ways only
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d) went well in some ways only
