Word.ws English Dictionary

zetabetical

zetabetical adjective: in reverse alphabetical order.

Adjective

zetabetical (not comparable)

  1. (rare) In reverse alphabetical order.
    • Whether the reader wants to know what a googol is (it's an extremely large number, written out in full: one, followed by one hundred zeros); something about game theory; about serendipity; series; stochastic processes; Z charts or zetabetical sequences (in reverse alphabetical order) - or countless...1974, Accountancy - Volume 85, page 120
    • The stories might be arranged in alphabetical (or zetabetical!) order.1989, Virginia A. Arnold, Connections: language arts/reading - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 32

Origin of zetabetical

Blend of zeta + alphabetical.

Questions about zetabetical

What does zetabetical mean?
Zetabetical means in reverse alphabetical order.
What part of speech is zetabetical?
Zetabetical is an adjective.

Words near zetabetical in the dictionary

  1. zeta potentials
  2. Zeta Ursae Majoris
  3. zeta value
  4. zeta values
  5. Zeta variant
  6. zetabetical
  7. zetabyte
  8. zetacism
  9. zetacist
  10. zetacrit
  11. zetacrits

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: zetabetical (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “zetabetical.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/zetabetical. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.