assorted [uh-sawr-tid] ExamplesWord Origin adjective
- consisting of different or various kinds; miscellaneous: assorted flavors; assorted sizes.
- consisting of selected kinds; arranged in sorts or varieties: rows of assorted vegetables.
- matched; suited.
Origin of assorted First recorded in 1790–1800; assort + -ed2 Related formsun·as·sort·ed, adjectivewell-as·sort·ed, adjective Examples from the Web for unassorted Historical Examples of unassorted
Instead, all our “thinking” would be merely an unassorted jumble of simple, disconnected sense-perceptions.
Applied Psychology: Driving Power of Thought
Warren Hilton
Together they form the nondescript shelters of a parasitical class of persons, white and colored, unassorted.
Charities and the Commons: The Pittsburgh Survey, Part II: The Place
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It takes these unassorted realities that are the despair of the sober intelligence, and extracts from them pure joy.
Samuel McChord Crothers
They are beginning to get the unassorted cars from the terminals, cars that are bound for more than a score of States.
Edward Hungerford
Out of sorts means mixed, unclassified, unassorted, having one’s functions disordered.
Blackwood Ketcham Benson
British Dictionary definitions for unassorted assorted adjective
- consisting of various kinds mixed together; miscellaneousassorted sweets
- arranged in sorts; classifiedassorted categories
- matched; suited (esp in the combinations well-assorted, ill-assorted)
Word Origin and History for unassorted assorted adj.
“arranged in sorts,” 1797, past participle adjective from assort (v.).