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alphabetarian |
alphabetic |
alphabetic character |
alphabetic script |
alphabetic writing |
alphabetical
| alphabetically
| alphabetics
| alphabetisation
| alphabetise
| alphabetised
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alphabetical
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective alphabetical has 2 senses
- alphabetical(a = adj.pert) alphabetic - relating to or expressed by a writing system that uses an alphabet; "alphabetical writing system" Derived form noun alphabet1
- alphabetical(a = adj.all) alphabetic - arranged in order according to the alphabet; "an alphabetic arrangement"; "dictionaries list words in alphabetical order" Derived form noun alphabet1
CIDE DICTIONARY
alphabetical, 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]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
alphabetical, adj. (also alphabetic)
1 of or relating to an alphabet.
2 in the order of the letters of the alphabet.
1 of or relating to an alphabet.
2 in the order of the letters of the alphabet.
Derivative
alphabetically adv.
THESAURUS
alphabetical
abecedarian, allographic, alphabetic, capital, graphemic, ideographic, lettered, lexigraphic, literal, logogrammatic, logographic, lower-case, majuscule, minuscular, minuscule, pictographic, transliterated, uncial, upper-caseROGET THESAURUS
alphabetical
Letter
N letter, character, hieroglyphic, type, capitals, digraph, trigraph, ideogram, ideograph, majuscule, minuscule, majuscule, minuscule, alphabet, ABC, abecedary, christcross-row, consonant, vowel, diphthong, triphthong, mute, liquid, labial, dental, guttural, syllable, monosyllable, dissyllable, polysyllable, affix, suffix, spelling, orthograph, phonography, phonetic spelling, anagrammatism, metagrammatism, cipher, monogram, anagram, doubleacrostic, literal, alphabetical, abecedarian, syllabic, majuscular, minuscular, uncial.
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