Nonalphabetized
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Not in alphabetical order; nonalphabetical. not-comparable
"With a slight modification of this fragment we can produce a nonalphabetized Roman numeral phone book."
- 2 Not educated in the use of an alphabet. not-comparable
"An examination of the literacy practices of the nonalphabetized, that is, those who have not acquired alphabetic writing through schooling, makes sense in a context such as ours, with large masses of unschooled people who have to cope daily with all sorts of literate institutions in various kinds of literacy events."
- 3 Nonalphabetic; that does not involve the use of alphabetic spelling. not-comparable
"In his analyses of the history of nonalphabetized languages, Marr did not take into account isogloss demarcations, and merely speculated about the ways human collectives learned to systematize and communicate discrete experiences."
Example
More examples"With a slight modification of this fragment we can produce a nonalphabetized Roman numeral phone book."
Etymology
From non- + alphabetized.
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