unsorted

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adjective

Not in any particular order or sequence.

“When he knocked the tray of type sorts onto the floor, he simply scooped everything back into the compartments, all unsorted.”

Less commonScrabble 9

Meanings

adjectiveunsorted (comparative more unsorted, superlative most unsorted)

comparative more unsorted · superlative most unsorted

  1. Not in any particular order or sequence.
    1 more example

    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. obsoleteIll-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

Synonyms & antonyms

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adjectivenot categorized or sorted

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishsorted
  9. Englishunsorted

From un- + sorted.

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Translations

Bulgarian неподреден
  • неподреден (nepodreden)Translations
Swedish osorterad
  • osorteradTranslations

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unsorted,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsorted.

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