nonalphabetized

Adjective

nonalphabetized (not comparable)

1. Not in alphabetical order; nonalphabetical.
   • With a slight modification of this fragment we can produce a nonalphabetized Roman numeral phone book.2010, Charles F. Van Loan, K.-Y. Daisy Fan, Insight Through Computing, page 210
   • Publishers' two main objectives—comprehensiveness and political correctness—were simply antithetical to a good narrative, Ferguson maintained; the fact that the books were team written and committee approved made them more like nonalphabetized encyclopedias than descriptive histories.2015, Lawrence R. Samuel, Remembering America: How We Have Told Our Past
2. Not educated in the use of an alphabet.
   • An examination of the literacy practices of the nonalphabetized, that is, those who have not acquired alphabetic writing through schooling, makes sense in a context such as ours, with large masses of unschooled people who have to cope daily with all sorts of literate institutions in various kinds...1998, Marta Kohl de Oliveira, Jaan Valsiner, Literacy in Human Development, page 206
   • The variety of fonts and types is a reminder that the printer was introducing the alphabet into a nonalphabetized culture and to a nonprint audience.2000, Patricia Crain, The Story of A
3. Nonalphabetic; that does not involve the use of alphabetic spelling.
   • In his analyses of the history of nonalphabetized languages, Marr did not take into account isogloss demarcations, and merely speculated about the ways human collectives learned to systematize and communicate discrete experiences.2002, Nina Perlina, Olʹga Freidenberg's Works and Days, page 74
   • Nonalphabetized sounds include: sighing, laughing, weeping, foot tapping, drumming fingers, whistling, humming, booing, coughing.2006, Arthur O. Roberts, Messengers of God