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alphabetic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective alphabetic has 2 senses
- alphabetic(a = adj.pert) alphabetical - relating to or expressed by a writing system that uses an alphabet; "alphabetical writing system" Derived form noun alphabet1
- alphabetic(a = adj.all) alphabetical - arranged in order according to the alphabet; "an alphabetic arrangement"; "dictionaries list words in alphabetical order" Antonym: analphabetic
Antonym: analphabetic
CIDE DICTIONARY
alphabetic, a. [Cf. F. alphabétique.].
- Pertaining to, furnished with, expressed by, or in the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement. [1913 Webster]
- Literal. Milton. [1913 Webster]
- in alphabetical order. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
alphabetic
abecedarian, allographic, capital, graphemic, ideographic, lettered, lexigraphic, literal, logogrammatic, logographic, lower-case, majuscule, minuscular, minuscule, pictographic, transliterated, uncial, upper-case
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