eligible
adjEtymology
From Middle French eligible, from Latin eligibilis, from ēligō (“select, choose”).
- derived from eligibilis
- derived from eligible
Definitions
Allowed to and meeting the necessary conditions required to participate in or be chosen…
Allowed to and meeting the necessary conditions required to participate in or be chosen for something
Worthy of being chosen (for marriage).
One who is eligible.
- 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.
The neighborhood
- synonymchoosable
- synonymlicensed
- synonymqualified
- antonymineligible
- antonymunqualified
- neighborelect
- neighborelegant
- neighboreligibility
- neighboreligibly
- neighborelite
- neighborillegible
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at eligible. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at eligible. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at eligible
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA