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unsorted en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English sorted English unsorted From un- + sorted.

Meanings

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. 1721, Robert Wodrow, The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland,: From the Restauration to the Revolution::
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. (obsolete) Ill-chosen, inconvenient, unsuitable
   • 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. ca 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry VI part 1:

Forms

Deriveds

unsortedness

Relateds

assorted

Translations (2)

sv osorterad (Translations) · bg неподреден (Translations)