Meanings
comparative more ineligible · superlative most ineligible
- Not eligible; forbidden to do something.
Employees of the promoter are ineligible to enter the competition.
Synonyms: uneligible, unqualified · Antonyms: eligible
plural ineligibles
- One who is not eligible.
However, migration of workers from the ineligible population into the eligible population also changes the composition of the ineligibles.
2002, Martin Feldstein, A. J. Auerbach, Handbook of Public Economics, page 1227
Synonyms & antonyms
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveprohibited by official rules
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Frenchinéligible
- Englishineligible
From French inéligible.
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian неподходящ, неприемлив
- неподходящ (nepodhodjašt)not eligible; forbidden to do something
- неприемлив (nepriemliv)not eligible; forbidden to do something
Catalan inelegible
- inelegiblenot eligible; forbidden to do something
Chinese Mandarin 沒有資格的 /没有资格的, 不合格的
- 沒有資格的 /没有资格的 (méiyǒu zīgé de)not eligible; forbidden to do something
- 不合格的 (bù hégé de)not eligible; forbidden to do something
Finnish kelpaamaton
- kelpaamatonnot eligible; forbidden to do something
French inéligible
- inéligiblenot eligible; forbidden to do something
German untauglich
- untauglichnot eligible; forbidden to do something
Hindi अपात्र
- अपात्र (apātra)not eligible; forbidden to do something
Hungarian nem jogosult, számba/szóba nem jöhető
- nem jogosultnot eligible; forbidden to do something
- számba/szóba nem jöhetőnot eligible; forbidden to do something
- nem megfelelőnot eligible; forbidden to do something
- el nem fogadhatónot eligible; forbidden to do something
- alkalmatlannot eligible; forbidden to do something
- elfogadhatatlannot eligible; forbidden to do something
- kizártnot eligible; forbidden to do something
Italian ineleggibile
- ineleggibilenot eligible; forbidden to do something
Japanese 無資格の, 不適任な
- 無資格の (mushikaku no)not eligible; forbidden to do something
- 不適任な (futekinin na)not eligible; forbidden to do something
- できない (dekinai)not eligible; forbidden to do something
Portuguese inelegível
- inelegívelnot eligible; forbidden to do something
Spanish inelegible
- inelegiblenot eligible; forbidden to do something
Urdu نااہل
- نااہل (nāahal)not eligible; forbidden to do something
Cite this entry
ineligible. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ineligible
“ineligible.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ineligible. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ineligible,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ineligible.
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