Used in a Sentence

ineligible

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for ineligible.

Editorial note

If you end up with too many poor grades, you will be ineligible for honors year (4th year/senior year).

Examples14
Definitions2
Parts of speech2

Quick take

One who is not eligible.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of ineligible gathered in one view.

noun

One who is not eligible.

adjective

Not eligible; forbidden to do something.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ineligible.

Example sentences

1

If you end up with too many poor grades, you will be ineligible for honors year (4th year/senior year).

2

In many states, an employee's misconduct has to be pretty bad to render the employee ineligible for unemployment benefits.

3

Having people who live in our society but are ineligible for our social benefits is harmful and destabilizing to us.

4

If a 60 year old proves the Riemann Hypothesis, why is he or she ineligible?

5

As someone who was ineligible for health insurance due to a surgery I'd had in my 20s, oh yes.

6

Strange, because the phone interviewer told me that I was ineligible because of the drug usage and ended the call.

7

It's my understanding that any vulnerability that has been disclosed is ineligible.

8

Furthermore, I move that DRM-ed works be made ineligible for all copyright protection.

9

All other addresses would be ineligible.

10

Abstract subjects are strictly ineligible.

11

Based on these factors, plus many more that have been argued to death, software should be ineligible for patents, and software on a computer of any kind should not be capable of infringing any patent.

12

It's high risk, the income is uneven, you have to pay unemployment insurance but are ineligible to receive it, and you have to market yourself (which is difficult and eats up your time) and do collections (which also eats up a lot of time and is too often unsuccessful).

Quote examples

1

Whole areas of cities were declared ineligible for loan guarantees.” Redlining was not officially outlawed until 1968, by the Fair Housing Act.

2

It had the great phrase "if broadband service is available to anyone in the service area for any price, the service area is ineligible for funding".

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use ineligible in a sentence?

If you end up with too many poor grades, you will be ineligible for honors year (4th year/senior year).

What does ineligible mean?

One who is not eligible.

What part of speech is ineligible?

ineligible is commonly used as noun, adjective.