disqualify

Other forms of disqualify

past tense or participle

disqualified

present participle

disqualifying·

third person

disqualifies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about disqualify

What does disqualify mean?

disqualify means "make unfit or unsuitable". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disqualify?

disqualify has 4 syllables: di-squa-li-fy. The stress falls on "squa". In IPA it is /dɪˈskwɑləˌfaɪ/.

What is another word for disqualify?

Close synonyms include unfit, indispose. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of disqualify?

The recorded antonyms are qualify, qualify.

Is disqualify a common word?

disqualify is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with disqualify?

72 words rhyme with disqualify. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.