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ill-sorted

ill-sorted adjective: badly matched or unmatched; ill-suited.

Adjective

ill-sorted (comparative more ill-sorted, superlative most ill-sorted)

  1. Badly matched or unmatched; ill-suited.
    • He was a morose man, with the extremely ill-sorted name of Lovegood, and when Rita discovered herself as an emissary of Mrs Dibble's, he worked himself into a temper at once. "I don't want no more dealings with that old trout."1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 48

Forms of ill-sorted

comparativemore ill-sorted
superlativemost ill-sorted

Questions about ill-sorted

What does ill-sorted mean?
Ill-sorted means badly matched or unmatched; ill-suited.
What part of speech is ill-sorted?
Ill-sorted is an adjective.

Words near ill-sorted in the dictionary

  1. ill-received
  2. ill-repute
  3. ill-scathe
  4. ill-scented
  5. ill-seen
  6. ill-sorted
  7. ill-spent
  8. ill-starred
  9. ill-suited
  10. ill-tempered
  11. ill-temperedly

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