unsorted
adjEtymology 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.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:
- Related terms
- assorted