Unsorted
adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Not in any particular order or sequence.
"Had the council warrants been in order, no question but considerable discoveries might have been made of the iniquity of this time; but those being unsorted, and in no small confusion, I was obliged to keep myself by what the managers have thought fit to put into the registers; and it is surprising to find some things there, which we shall afterwards meet with."
- 2 Mixed, jumbled, not separated by property into categories.
"When he knocked the tray of type sorts onto the floor, he simply scooped everything back into the compartments, all unsorted."
- 3 Ill-chosen, inconvenient, unsuitable obsolete
"The purpose you undertake is dangerous; the friends you have named uncertain; the time itself unsorted; and your whole plot too light for the counterpoise of so great an opposition."
- 1 not categorized or sorted wordnet
- 2 not arranged according to size wordnet
Example
More examples"Had the council warrants been in order, no question but considerable discoveries might have been made of the iniquity of this time; but those being unsorted, and in no small confusion, I was obliged to keep myself by what the managers have thought fit to put into the registers; and it is surprising to find some things there, which we shall afterwards meet with."
Etymology
From un- + sorted.
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