sort

n

1. kind, class, category, genre, order; lot, style, manner, cast, mold, stamp, brand, kidney; grain, make, mark; color, stripe, streak, feather, vein; nature, aspect, character; group, set, suit, variety, genus, species, phylum, subgenus, subspecies, strain; race, breed, people, fold; clan, family, tribe, brood, ilk, kin, stock, stirps.

2. manner, fashion, way, method, mode; custom, pattern, style.

3. of sorts

a. adequate, passable, acceptable, tolerable, admissable, Inf. not that good, not bad, not too bad, mediocre.b. of one sort or another, undistinguished, unexceptional, unnotable, modest; neutral, bland, Sl. ho-hum, Sl. blah.

4. out of sorts

a. in low spirits, depressed, dejected, downcast, Inf. down, Inf. down in the dumps; unhappy, cheerless, gloomy, under a cloud; melancholy, mopey, Inf. down in the mouth, Sl. off one's feed, Sl. bummed out.b. indisposed, ill, sick, sickly, sickened, ailing, valetudinarian; in a bad way, on the sick list, Inf. under the weather, not up to snuff; unhealthy, unsound, unwell.c. irritable, testy, touchy, snappish, petulant, irascible; grumpy, cranky, grouchy, crotchety; gruff, impatient, crabby, cross, crabbed; moody, temperamental; ill-tempered, ill-humored.

5. sort of

Informal. somewhat, rather, to some extent, to a certain extent, to a degree, to some degree, in some measure, more or less, Inf. kind of; fairly, reasonably, moderately, mildly; in part, partly, partially; a little, a bit, slightly.

v

6. classify, categorize, arrange, order, put in order, class; assort, organize, systemize, systematize, methodize; lay out, line up, align; tidy, neaten; catalogue, index, list; sort out, separate, divide, subdivide.