Eligible vs Admissible - What's the difference?
eligible | admissible |
Suitable; meeting the conditions; worthy of being chosen; allowed to do something.
One who is eligible.
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capable or deserving to be admitted, accepted or allowed; allowable, permissible, acceptable
(artificial intelligence) Describing a heuristic that never overestimates the cost of reaching a goal.
As adjectives the difference between eligible and admissible
is that eligible is suitable; meeting the conditions; worthy of being chosen; allowed to do something while admissible is capable or deserving to be admitted, accepted or allowed; allowable, permissible, acceptable.As a noun eligible
is one who is eligible.eligible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
Used in the phrase (eligible bachelor) to mean “desirable male”, the corresponding term for a woman is nubile.Synonyms
* qualifiedAntonyms
* ineligible * unqualifiedNoun
(en noun)citation