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Eligible vs Accomplished - What's the difference?

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Eligible is a related term of accomplished.


As adjectives the difference between eligible and accomplished

is that eligible is eligible while accomplished is completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact.

As a verb accomplished is

(accomplish).

eligible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Suitable; meeting the conditions; worthy of being chosen; allowed to do something.

    • Usage notes

    Used in the phrase (eligible bachelor) to mean “desirable male”, the corresponding term for a woman is nubile.

    Related terms

    * eligibility * eligibly * elite * choosable * licensed

    Synonyms

    * qualified

    Antonyms

    * ineligible * unqualified

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who is eligible.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 3, author=Diane Ravitch, title=Get Congress Out of the Classroom, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Federal agencies report that only about 1 percent of eligible students take advantage of switching schools and fewer than 20 percent of eligibles receive extra tutoring.}}

    accomplished

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact
  • Complete in acquirements usually as a result of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished' scholar, an ' accomplished villain
  • * They . . . show themselves accomplished bees. - Holland
  • * Daughter of God and man, accomplished Eve. -
  • Sophisticated

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (accomplish)