3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Alphabetic \Al`pha*bet"ic\, Alphabetical \Al`pha*bet"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. alphab['e]tique.] 1. Pertaining to, furnished with, expressed by, or in the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement. English has an alphabetical writing system. [1913 Webster] 2. Literal. [Obs.] "Alphabetical servility." --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. in alphabetical order. Syn: abecedarian [WordNet 1.5] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: alphabetic adj 1: relating to or expressed by a writing system that uses an alphabet; "alphabetical writing system" [syn: {alphabetical}] [ant: {analphabetic}] 2: arranged in order according to the alphabet; "an alphabetic arrangement"; "dictionaries list words in alphabetical order" [syn: {alphabetical}] [ant: {analphabetic}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 18 Moby Thesaurus words for "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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