ineligibleadj.n.
/ɪnˈɛlɪdʒɪb(ə)l/ A. adj.† 2. Of actions, etc.: Such as one would not choose to do; inexpedient; undesirable. Obsolete.
1.
a. Incapable of being elected; legally or officially disqualified for election to an office or position.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > [adjective] > appointed by election > qualified for election > not
ineligible1770
1770 S. Johnson False Alarm 22 The votes given to a man ineligible being given in vain, the highest number for an eligible candidate becomes a majority.
1825 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Wks. (1859) I. 80 My wish..was that the President should be elected for seven years, and be ineligible afterwards.
1861 E. O'Curry Lect. Manuscript Materials Anc. Irish Hist. 252 He was dumb, and therefore..ineligible to be made a king.
b. Hence, Unfit, or considered unfit, to be chosen; unworthy of choice.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [adjective]
unkinOE
un-i-feieOE
unbecomelyc1200
amissc1325
wrongousa1350
uncovenablec1374
unsitting1390
undue1398
ungainanda1400
unquemea1400
inconvenientc1400
unlikelyc1405
disconvenienta1425
impertinenta1425
discovenablec1436
unmeetc1440
wrongc1440
unjustc1443
unbehovablec1450
inconvenientc1460
uncordial1488
unmeetly1534
unapt1539
unfit1548
incommodious1553
ungreeing1560
impertinent1565
stravagant1565
unproper1566
improper1570
unhovable1570
unapt1579
unbeseeming1583
unsuitablea1586
unappliable1588
unapt1588
unlikely1590
unfittinga1592
unfitted1592
unsuiting1596
unbefitting1598
unsorted1598
unsuited1598
contrary1600
impair1609
unfitty1613
incompetible1621
incongruous1623
infita1626
uncompetiblea1628
inaccommodatea1657
inapplicable1656
inconcinnate1657
inconcinnous1662
inept1675
unaccommodatea1676
incommode1678
indecorous1681
untoward1682
unapplicable1690
insuitable1692
unsuit1704
malapropos1709
inapt1744
out of place1748
uncongenial1788
unfit-like1796
ungain-like1796
inappropriate1804
unadapted1805
dissuitable1807
dissuited1819
ineligible1828
infelicitous1835
unapropos1840
butt-ended1850
malappropriate1851
ungenial1871
misappropriate1878
unbecoming1893
unappropriate1898
unadjusted1899
offside1910
off-key1943
improbable1958
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Ineligible..2. Not worthy to be chosen or preferred.
1862 A. Trollope Orley Farm II. xii. 90 As a son-in-law he was quite ineligible.
1900 N.E.D. at Ineligible Mod. Altogether ineligible as a permanent residence.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > inexpediency > [adjective]
unexpedientc1449
discommendable?1537
unpolitic1548
politicless1556
disagreeing1568
impolitica1600
inexpedient1608
unpractical1638
unpolitical1643
unpractic1657
uncounsellablea1674
uneligible1690
unprosperable1690
impolitical1748
unadvisable1758
ineligible1779
inadvisable1782
1779 R. Howe in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) II. 321 He reports that storming them, at present, would be ineligible.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) Contents 9 [It was] ineligible to take a greater time in the whole than formerly.
1797 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) IV. 155 If there be any circumstance which might render its delivery ineligible, you may return it to me.
B. n. absol. with plural.
One not eligible as a suitor or a husband.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > seeking marriage > [noun] > seeking hand in marriage > one who > one who is not eligible as a suitor
ineligible1896
1896 Westm. Gaz. 11 May 2/3 Archibald Rolles, an ineligible, declares his love to Margaretta Ridout, a penniless girl.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 25 May 3/2 Mothers of marriageable daughters..sometimes lament that eligible men as a class are so much less agreeable than the ineligibles.
Derivatives
inˈeligibly adv. in an ineligible manner.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [adverb]
wrongc1175
unkindlyc1300
wrongly1303
unworthily1377
uncovenablya1382
improperly1390
inconveniently1509
ineptly1523
impertinently1546
unaptly1548
unfeatly1548
unhandsomely1548
unfitly1561
disagreeably1566
unmeet1577
unsuitably1624
malapropos1630
unfittingly1637
unfit1653
unworthy1661
inaptly1809
misappropriatelyc1831
infelicitouslya1834
ineligibly1846
inappropriately1847
inapplicably1864
unapropos1956
1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Ineligibly.
1872 Daily News 2 Sept. The camp of the Army Corps headquarters, ineligibly situated..if military conditions are regarded.
inˈeligibleness n. = ineligibility n.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [noun]
inconvenience1413
uncompetence?1541
unaptness1548
improperty1555
unaptness1557
unproperness1561
impertinency1573
unmeetness1574
disagreement1580
unfitnessa1586
unsuitablenessa1586
incongruity1597
inconvenientness1600
improperness1612
indispositiona1613
insuitability1612
ineptitude1615
impertinence1616
inconcinnity1616
infelicity1617
unbeseemingness1623
ineptness1633
impertinentness1645
incompatibility1659
incompetibilitya1660
disaccommodationa1676
indecorousness1681
indisposednessa1684
inaptitudea1688
impropriety1697
wrongness1726
ineligibility1795
inaptness1814
unsuitability1814
unappropriateness1838
unadaptedness1846
inappropriateness1847
unfittingness1861
unbefittingness1865
ineligibleness1881
1881 Daily News 4 Mar. 9/3 Unless experience of this latter place tends to show its ineligibleness for sanitary reasons.
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