DISQUALIFIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disqualified mean? 

• DISQUALIFIED (adjective)
  The adjective DISQUALIFIED has 2 senses:

1. disqualified by law or rule or provision

2. barred from competition for violation of rules

  Familiarity information: DISQUALIFIED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISQUALIFIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disqualified by law or rule or provision

Similar:

ineligible (not eligible)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Barred from competition for violation of rules

Context example:

a disqualified player

Similar:

ineligible (not eligible)

Domain category:

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

 Context examples 

The state or quality of being disqualified by law, rule, or provision.

(Ineligibility, NCI Thesaurus)

Now that you think me disqualified to become your husband, you recoil from my touch as if I were some toad or ape.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The state of his health was not a matter in which he himself took the faintest interest, for his mental detachment was absolute, but he was induced at last, on the threat of being permanently disqualified from work, to give himself a complete change of scene and air.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Fanny was very anxious to be useful, and not to appear above her home, or in any way disqualified or disinclined, by her foreign education, from contributing her help to its comforts, and therefore set about working for Sam immediately; and by working early and late, with perseverance and great despatch, did so much that the boy was shipped off at last, with more than half his linen ready.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)