[syn: alphabetic, alphabetical]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
alphabetical
adj 1: relating to or expressed by a writing system that uses an
alphabet; "alphabetical writing system" [syn:
alphabetic, alphabetical] [ant: analphabetic]
2: arranged in order according to the alphabet; "an alphabetic
arrangement"; "dictionaries list words in alphabetical order"
[syn: alphabetic, alphabetical] [ant: analphabetic]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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