Word Meanings - ELIGIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office. 2. Worthy to be chosen or selected; suitable; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house. The more eligible of the two

Additional info about word: ELIGIBLE

1. That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office. 2. Worthy to be chosen or selected; suitable; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house. The more eligible of the two evils. Burke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ELIGIBLE)

• Suitable
• Proper
• fitting
• becoming
• seemly
• befitting
• adequate
• eligible
• agreeable
• appropriate
• decent
• convenient
• accordant
• competent
• correspondent
• harmonious
• uniform
• homogeneous

Related words: (words related to ELIGIBLE)

• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• PROPER
  Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good.
• UNIFORMISM
  The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the earth; -- in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism.
• HOMOGENEOUSNESS
  Sameness 9kind or nature; uniformity of structure or material.
• UNIFORMAL
  Uniform. Herrick.
• ELIGIBLE
  1. That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office. 2. Worthy to be chosen or selected; suitable; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house. The more eligible of the two
• UNIFORMLY
  In a uniform manner; without variation or diversity; by a regular, constant, or common ratio of change; with even tenor; as, a temper uniformly mild. To vary uniformly , to vary with the ratio of the corresponding increments constant; -- said of
• ACCORDANTLY
  In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.
• CONVENIENTLY
  In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty.
• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• ADEQUATE
  1. To equalize; to make adequate. Fotherby. 2. To equal. It an impossibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity. Shelford.
• PROPERLY
  1. In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted. Milton. 2. Individually; after one's own manner. Now, harkeneth, how I bare me properly. Chaucer.
• PROPERNESS
  1. The quality of being proper. 2. Tallness; comeliness. Udall.
• PROPERATE
  To hasten, or press forward.
• BEFITTINGLY
  In a befitting manner; suitably.
• PROPERTIED
  Possessing property; holding real estate, or other investments of money. "The propertied and satisfied classes." M. Arnold.
• CORRESPONDENT
  One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance. (more info) 1. One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter. Macualay. 2. One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to
• PROPERISPOME
  Properispomenon.
• BECOMED
  Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
• DECENT
  fitting or becoming; akin to decus glory, honor, ornament, Gr. d to grant, to give; and perh. akin to E. attire, tire: cf. F. décent. Cf. 1. Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as,
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• MESOCUNEIFORM; MESOCUNIFORM
  One of the bones of the tarsus. See 2d Cuneiform.
• UNHARMONIOUS
  Inharmonious; unsymmetrical; also, unmusical; discordant. Swift. -- Un`har*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv.
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• INELIGIBLE
  Not eligible; not qualified to be chos Burke.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• ENTOCUNEIFORM; ENTOCUNIFORM
  One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform.
• UNAPPROPRIATE
  1. Inappropriate; unsuitable. 2. Not appropriated. Bp. Warburton.
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• IMPROPERTY
  Impropriety.