What does ill-sorted mean?
Ill-sorted means Badly matched or unmatched; ill-suited..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Badly matched or unmatched; ill-suited..
He was a morose man, with the extremely ill-sorted name of Lovegood, and when Rita discovered herself as an emissary of Mrs Dibble's, he worked himself into a temper at once. "I don't want no more dealings with that old trout."
Use ill-sorted when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ill-sorted means Badly matched or unmatched; ill-suited..
Common synonyms include incompatible, mismatched, mismated, unsuited.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He was a morose man, with the extremely ill-sorted name of Lovegood, and when Rita discovered herself as an emissary of Mrs Dibble's, he worked himself into a temper at once. "I don't want no more dealings with that old trout."
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