Warranted vs Eligible - What's the difference?
warranted | eligible |
(warrant)
Authorized with a warrant.
Deserved, necessary.
Suitable; meeting the conditions; worthy of being chosen; allowed to do something.
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
, 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.}}
As adjectives the difference between warranted and eligible
is that warranted is authorized with a warrant while eligible is eligible.As a verb warranted
is (warrant).warranted
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- Under the circumstances, his outburst was not warranted .
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