单词 | ill-sorted |
释义 | ill-sortedadj. 1. Badly assorted or arranged; ill-matched. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [adjective] > badly or unsuitably matched unevenlyc1425 matchless1596 unfellowed1597 misgraffed1600 mismatched1638 ill-sorted1691 misgrafted1738 mismated1852 misrelated1881 1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 217 Without this, the Harmony of the Universe would be very defective, and its parts disproportionate and ill-sorted. 1725 I. Watts Logick iv. ii. §3 Ideas ill-joined, ill-sorted, or ill-disposed. 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. iv. x. 286 His ill-sorted armour. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I li. 28 He and his wife were an ill-sorted pair. 2. Badly suited; put ‘out of sorts’; displeased, ‘upset’. Scottish. ΚΠ 1829 W. Scott Guy Mannering (new ed.) II. xvi. 204 Ye'll be ill-sorted to hear that he's like to be in the prison at Portanferry. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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