Meanings
comparative more ordered · superlative most ordered
- In order, not messy, tidy.
Milner and Theo Walcott failed to justify their selection ahead of Aston Villa's Young as they struggled ineffectually in the first half, leaving striker Bent isolated and starved of supply as Switzerland looked the more composed and ordered team.
2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 2 Switzerland”, in BBC1 more example
If Euston is not typically English, St. Pancras is. Its façade is a nightmare of improbable Gothic. It is fairly plastered with the aesthetic ideals of 1868, and the only beautiful thing about it is Barlow's roof. It is haunted by the stuffier kind of ghost. Yet there is something about the ordered whole of St. Pancras that would make demolition a terrible pity.
1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 358 - oftenmathematicsEquipped with a partial or total order which, in any of several technical senses, respects the algebraic structure of the object (if such structure exists). See .
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of order
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving a systematic arrangement; especially having elements succeeding in order according to rule
adjectivemarked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
German sortiert
- sortiertin order, not messy, tidy
Hindi क्रमबद्ध
- क्रमबद्ध (krambaddh)in order, not messy, tidy
Latin ordinātus
- ordinātusin order, not messy, tidy
Māori nahanaha
- nahanahain order, not messy, tidy
Portuguese organizado
- organizadoin order, not messy, tidy
Spanish ordenado
- ordenadoin order, not messy, tidy
Swedish ordnad, sorterad
- ordnadin order, not messy, tidy
- sorteradin order, not messy, tidy
- organiseradin order, not messy, tidy
- prydligin order, not messy, tidy
Cite this entry
ordered. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ordered
“ordered.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ordered. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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