Roget's Thesaurus

#469. Qualification

Nouns

qualification, limitation, modification, coloring. allowance, grains of allowance, consideration, extenuating circumstances; mitigation. condition, proviso, prerequisite, contingency, stipulation, provision, specification, sine qua non [Lat.]; catch, string, strings attached; exemption; exception, escape clause, salvo, saving clause; discount etc. 813; restriction; fine print.

Verbs

qualify, limit, modify, leaven, give a color to, introduce new conditions, narrow, temper. waffle, quibble, hem and haw (be uncertain) 475; equivocate (sophistry) 477. depend, depend on, be contingent on (effect) 154. allow for, make allowance for; admit exceptions, take into account; modulate. moderate, temper, season, leaven. take exception.

Adjectives

qualifying etc. v.; qualified, conditioned, restricted, hedged; conditional; exceptional etc. (unconformable) 83. hypothetical etc. (supposed) 514; contingent etc. (uncertain) 475.

Adverbs

provided, provided that, provided always; if, unless, but, yet; according as; conditionally, admitting, supposing; on the supposition of etc. (theoretically) 514; with the understanding, even, although, though, for all that, after all, at all events. approximately etc. 197, 17; in a limited degree (smallness) 32; somewhat, sort of, something like that, to a certain extent, to a degree, in a sense, so to speak. with grains of allowance, cum grano salis [Lat.], with a grain of salt; exceptis excipiendis [Lat.]; wind and weather permitting; if possible etc. 470. subject to, conditioned upon; with this proviso etc. n..

Phrases

if the good lord is willing and the creeks don't rise; catch-22.