unqualified

Without the training, skills, or official requirements needed to do a job or task.

• The company hired unqualified staff.
• He was unqualified for the teaching job.
• Are you unqualified to operate this machine?

How to use it: unqualified for something (He is unqualified for this position.); unqualified to do something (She is unqualified to give medical advice.)

Similar words: untrained, unfit, ineligible

Opposites: qualified

Common phrases: unqualified staff, unqualified for something, unqualified to teach

Complete and clear, with nothing reducing its strength or success.

• The concert was an unqualified success.
• Their work received unqualified praise from the judges.
• She expressed unqualified support for the new plan.

Similar words: complete, total, absolute

Opposites: partial

Common phrases: unqualified success, unqualified support, unqualified praise

Not limited by conditions or made more specific by extra information.

• This is not an unqualified right.
• Her unqualified statement left no room for exceptions.
• The agreement gives neither side unqualified freedom to cancel.

Similar words: unrestricted, unconditional, absolute

Opposites: qualified, restricted

Common phrases: unqualified right, unqualified statement, unqualified claim