Word Meanings - SORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Chance; lot; destiny. By aventure, or sort, or cas . Chaucer. Let blockish Ajax draw The sort to fight with Hector. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SORT)

• Category
• State
• kind
• predicament
• condition
• nature
• order
• mode
• sort
• class
• Character
• Symbol
• letter
• type
• disposition
• genius
• temperament
• cast
• estimation
• repute
• office
• reputation
• part
• capacity
• stamp
• quality
• species
• sign
• tone
• mark
• figure
• record
• Digest Sort
• arrange
• dispose
• classify
• study
• ponder
• consider
• prepare
• assimilate
• incorporate
• convert
• methodise
• tabulate
• Kin
• Race
• kindred
• offspring
• family
• ilk
• genus
• kidney
• relationship
• consanguinity
• kinsfolk
• blood
• Manner
• Mode
• method
• style
• form
• fashion
• carriage
• behavior
• deportment
• habit

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SORT)

• Obliviate
• silentiate
• suppress
• Suppress
• repress
• suppose
• imply
• deny
• contradict
• retract

Related words: (words related to SORT)

• KINSFOLK
  Relatives; kindred; kin; persons of the same family or closely or closely related families. They sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance. Luke ii. 44.
• SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
  Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
• BLOODSUCKER
  Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• CONSANGUINITY
  The relation of person by blood, is distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity. Invoking aid by the ties of consanguinity. Prescott.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• DIGESTER
  1. One who digests. 2. A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power. Rice is . . . a great restorer of health, and a great digester. Sir W. Temple. 3. A strong closed vessel, in which bones or other
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• BLOODSHEDDER
  One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• PONDEROUS
  1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
• CATEGORY
  One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament. The categories or predicaments -- the former a Greek
• CONVERTIBILITY
  The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• 'SBLOOD
  An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak.
• ENSTAMP
  To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
  Equality of weight; equipoise.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.