Antonyms for sort
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : sawrt |
| Phonetic Transcription : sɔrt |
Definition of sort
Origin :- late 14c., from Old French sorte "class, kind," from Latin sortem (nominative sors) "lot; fate, destiny; share, portion; rank, category; sex, class, oracular response, prophecy," from PIE root *ser- (3) "to line up" (cf. Latin serere "to arrange, attach, join;" see series). The sense evolution in Vulgar Latin is from "what is allotted to one by fate," to "fortune, condition," to "rank, class, order." Out of sorts "not in usual good condition" is attested from 1620s, with literal sense of "out of stock."
- noun type, variety
- verb place in order
- But he had not done so, and she was glad he could be restrained and deliberate in that "breedy" sort of way.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- It had grown much too cold to do without some sort of artificial covering.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- She came down to breakfast singing the words in a sort of ecstasy.
- Extract from : « Harriet, The Moses of Her People » by Sarah H. Bradford
- Except for a very few words we do not know what sort of tongue it was.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- Again came the cry, more gently, ending in a sort of sobbing monologue.
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- There is no passion in your veins; it is only a sort of sympathetic selfishness.
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- The reasons for our apprehensions of this sort are not over.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- Those fellows downstairs think that I'm a sort of bad hombre.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- After a sort of shyness in the recognition, he turns back with them.
- Extract from : « Sights from a Steeple (From "Twice Told Tales") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- There was a sort of breathless touch in the air of the room.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
Synonyms for sort
- arrange
- array
- assort
- batch
- battery
- body
- brand
- breed
- button down
- catalogue
- categorize
- category
- character
- choose
- class
- classify
- clutch
- comb
- cull
- denomination
- description
- distribute
- divide
- family
- file
- genus
- grade
- group
- ilk
- kind
- likes
- likes of
- lot
- make
- nature
- number
- order
- parcel
- peg
- pick
- pigeonhole
- put down as
- put down for
- put in order
- put in shape
- put to rights
- quality
- race
- rank
- riddle
- screen
- select
- separate
- set
- sift
- size up
- species
- stamp
- stripe
- style
- suite
- systematize
- tab
- typecast
- winnow
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