unsorted

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.

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

   “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.”