Used when someone or something is deemed ineligible or fails to meet requirements, often in formal or legal contexts.
The application documents were incomplete, and the applicant was disqualified.
In this exam, cheating results in immediate disqualification.
abessive
Linguistic term for a grammatical case expressing lack or absence, equivalent to the abessive case in languages like Finnish.
The abessive case in Finnish means 'without'.
eligible; qualified; competent
disqualification clause
Compound of 欠 (lack) and 格 (status, standard). The linguistic sense is a calque from Western grammatical terminology.