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Qualified vs Qualitative - What's the difference?

qualified | qualitative |

As adjectives the difference between qualified and qualitative

is that qualified is meeting the standards, requirements, and training for a position while qualitative is of descriptions or distinctions based on some quality rather than on some quantity.

As a verb qualified

is past tense of qualify.

As a noun qualitative is

something qualitative.

qualified

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Meeting the standards, requirements, and training for a position.
  • Restricted or limited by conditions.
  • Assuming that I have all the information, my qualified opinion is that your plan will work.

    Antonyms

    * unqualified

    Verb

    (head)
  • (qualify)
  • qualitative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of descriptions or distinctions based on some quality rather than on some quantity
  • (chemistry) of a form of analysis that yields the identity of a compound
  • Derived terms

    * qualitativeness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something qualitative.
  • See also

    * quantitative ----