Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
unsortable

unsortable

5.6
Cannot be put in order
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈsɔrtəbl/
translation icon : no clasificable
  • After the chaos of the event, there were several unsortable items left behind, cluttering the space.

Examples

  • The collection of unsortable documents piled up on his desk made it hard to find important papers.

  • Their unsortable collection of old photographs required hours of sorting to make sense of the memories.

  • So you can see I keep like my little chunks of unsortable brass and bronze in there.

Antonyms

organized
  • US
19 2.0

Having things in order so they are easy to find

sortable
1 3.2

Can be put in order, for example by name or date

How Sortable

organized
  • US
19 2.0
sortable
1 3.2
disordered
7 4.5
chaotic
116 4.7
unsortable
5.6

Surface Forms

unsortable positive

Morphology

unsortable = sortable (transparent) = un + sort + able

The prefix 'un-' clearly negates the meaning of 'sortable', making it transparent.

Etymology

Unsortable breaks into three parts: un- meaning 'not', sort meaning 'to put into order', as in 'sort out', and -able meaning 'able'. So unsortable means 'not able to be put into order', which is why we use it for files or data that cannot be arranged.