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Barred vs Disqualified - What's the difference?

barred | disqualified |

As verbs the difference between barred and disqualified

is that barred is past tense of bar while disqualified is past tense of disqualify.

As an adjective barred

is having bars; striped.

barred

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having bars; striped.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=14 citation , passage=Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall.  Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.}}
  • Prevented.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (bar)
    • He barred the door at evening.
    ----

    disqualified

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (disqualify)

    • disqualify

    English

    Verb

  • To make ineligible for something, by the explicit revocation of a previous qualification.

    • Related terms

    * disqualification