Alphabetical

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.


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     2. Literal. [Obs.] "Alphabetical servility." --Milton.
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     3. in alphabetical order.
  
     Syn: abecedarian
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  alphabetical
       adj 1: relating to or expressed by a writing system that uses an
              alphabet; "alphabetical writing system" [syn: {alphabetic}]
              [ant: {analphabetic}]
       2: arranged in order according to the alphabet; "an alphabetic
          arrangement"; "dictionaries list words in alphabetical
          order" [syn: {alphabetic}] [ant: {analphabetic}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "alphabetical":
     abecedarian, allographic, alphabetic, capital, graphemic,
     ideographic, lettered, lexigraphic, literal, logogrammatic,
     logographic, lower-case, majuscule, minuscular, minuscule,
     pictographic, transliterated, uncial, upper-case