I know the words unqualified, disqualified. But is the term 'ill-qualified' right grammatically? In some articles I have seen that they used it to say people who are not competent enough and in some articles I have seen they have used it wrongly, but my question is it even a term in English/English vocabulary?


Solution 1:

I looked at Merriam-Webster, Oxford, and even Merriam-Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. "Ill-qualified" is not a word offered in any of these dictionaries. However, the use of a hyphen connects the two words and makes a new adjective with a combined meaning, like "just-shined Chevy" or "My I-literally-just-cleaned-him dog went in the mud again," so "ill-qualified" is actually a grammatically acceptable term and able to be used in this regard. Often, these word combinations (for example, "calculus-wise") are in large quantities, and dictionaries can not account for them all.