Unfit vs Disqualified - What's the difference?
unfit | disqualified | Related terms |
Not fit; not having the correct requirements.
:Jack cannot run, making him unfit for the track team.
Not fit, not having a good physical demeanor.
To make unfit; to render unsuitable, spoil, disqualify.
*1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
*:He [...] added that he was fearful Christianity, or rather Christians, had unfitted him for ascending the pure and undefiled throne of thirty pagan Kings before him.
*1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.30:
*:These preoccupations unfitted the soldiers for the defence of the frontier, and permitted vigorous incursions of Germans form the north and Persians from the east.
(disqualify)
To make ineligible for something, by the explicit revocation of a previous qualification.
Unfit is a related term of disqualified.
As verbs the difference between unfit and disqualified
is that unfit is to make unfit; to render unsuitable, spoil, disqualify while disqualified is (disqualify).As an adjective unfit
is not fit; not having the correct requirements.unfit
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Adjective
(en adjective)- I've become so unfit after stopping cycling to town.
