unsorted
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.93 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not in any particular order or sequence.
adj
Mixed, jumbled, not separated by property into categories.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "When he knocked the tray of type sorts onto the floor, he simply scooped everything back into the compartments, all unsorted."
- "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."
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.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more unsorted (comparative)
most unsorted (superlative)