Synonyms and Antonyms of sort
1
to come or be together as friends
- you should be careful about whom you sort with
associate, chum, company, consociate, consort, fraternize, hang (around or out), hobnob, hook up, mess around, pal (around), run, travel
affiliate, ally, attach, band, bond, club, collaborate, collude, confederate, conjoin, connect, cooperate, couple, gang, get along, get on, group, interrelate, join, knot, league, link, mingle, mix, rally, relate, side, socialize, team, tie, wed
befriend, friend
avoid, cold-shoulder, shun, snub
alienate, estrange
break up, disband, disperse, split (up)
disjoin, dissociate, disunite, divorce, sever, split, sunder
2
to be in agreement on every point
- that doesn't sort with what you said the last time
accord, agree, answer, check, chord, cohere, coincide, comport, conform, consist, correspond, dovetail, fit, go, harmonize, jibe, rhyme (also rime), square, tally
3
to arrange or assign according to type
- sorted the mail into bills to be paid and junk to be thrown out
assort, break down, categorize, class, classify, codify, compartment, compartmentalize, digest, distinguish, distribute, grade, group, peg, place, range, rank, relegate, separate, type
array, dispose, draw up, marshal (also marshall), order, organize, systematize
alphabetize, catalog (or catalogue), file, index, list, refer
pigeonhole, shelve
identify, recognize
cull, screen, set, sieve, sift, winnow
clump, cluster, colligate
recategorize, reclassify, regroup
subcategorize
